Quotes About Rags

#1. It is here, it exists - but one must enter it naked and alone, with no rags from the falsehoods of centuries, with the purest clarity of mind - not an innocent heart, but that which is much rarer: an intransigent mind - as one's only possession and key.

Ayn Rand

#2. People read what news they wanted to and each accordingly built his own rathouse of history's rags and straws.

Thomas Pynchon

#3. I have played nasty people, but not everyone has seen that stuff. Before 'The Office,' I mainly got cast as little toe-rags.

Martin Freeman

#4. Virtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness.

Philip Massinger

#5. Be not among z drunkards [5] or among a gluttonous eaters of meat, 21 for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and b slumber will clothe them with rags.

Anonymous

#6. One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. When is truth pleasing? It is only when we clothe it's nakedness with rags of imagination, or sweeten it with fiction, that it can please.

H. Rider Haggard

#8. They came out. They were children. They wore rags and their skin was livid with sores. Their veins were tubes, their hair wire. Sapphique reached out and touched them.
'You are the ones who will save us,' he said.

Catherine Fisher

#9. Rags will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it.

Samuel Johnson

#10. Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.

Alexander Pope

#11. How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you - you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences - like rags and shreds of your very life.

Katherine Mansfield

#12. Ramirez walked ahead with a torch he'd fashioned from a stick and some rags and by that queer and reddish light, devils, or the shadows of devils hooked to the shoes of the men and capered across the stony earth.

Laird Barron

#13. The winter is made and you have to bear it,
The winter web, the winter woven, wind and wind,
For all the thoughts of summer that go with it
In the mind, pupa of straw, moppet of rags ...

Wallace Stevens

#14. First of all, don't mix your hairpins up with mine! You ... Oh! All right, mix your muck with mine. Mix it! Mix your rags with my tatters! Mix it all up ...

Jean Genet

#15. Your incredible brain can take you from rags to riches, from loneliness to popularity, and from depression to happiness and joy - if you use it properly.

Brian Tracy

#16. The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise.

Mark Akenside

#17. Gypsy [Rose Lee] is as unique as she is timeless. Her story is classic Americana, and the strangest rags-to-riches saga you'll ever read; I like to call it Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.

Karen Abbott

#18. God walks 'round in muddy boots, sometimes rags and that's the truth. You can't always tell but sometimes you just know. " From Geodes

Carrie Newcomer

#19. You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.

Brian Tracy

#20. There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

George Farquhar

#21. Europeans started wearing linen underwear instead of wool. There is no record indicating that this made the Europeans less irritable, but it did make a lot more rags available.

Mark Kurlansky

#22. In the school suggestion box, brought out at times, Sting put in a scrap of notepaper advising the authorities to ban the 'slipper', advising everyone to wrap rags around their feet.

James Berryman

#23. The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.

Charles A. Reich

#24. The Greek knows how to live with his rags: they don't utterly degrade and befoul him as in other countries I have visited.

Henry Miller

#25. I'm no Cinderella. No fairy godmother will be coming to my rescue, so it's time to turn these rags into gowns and get ready before my pumpkin ride arrives in two hours.

Cecilia Robert

#26. Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#27. If a woman recognizes her power, she can present herself in rags and people will recognize her as queen.

Beth Kery

#28. You were a well-respected agent, Michael, a rags-to-riches fairytale ending. Until you became disgraced. Now it appears your own organization wishes to be rid of you. Why is this?"
"My gun turned back into a pumpkin.

Nenia Campbell

#29. Monsieur, innocence is its own crown! Innocence has only to act to be noble! She is as august in rags as fleur de lys.

Victor Hugo

#30. To feel myself. Light as a feather free as a bird, though long since fit to be shot down. Unleash the dog with no sense of shame. Become this or that. Awaken the dead. Wear my pal Baldander's rags for a change. Lose my way on a single-minded quest.

Gunter Grass

#31. Lou looked at Davis there praying like God was in his heart and home, while his family remained behind in rags and fear and would have starved except for the kindness of Louisa Cardinal. She could only shake her head.

David Baldacci

#32. The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity and simplicity of it's benevolent institutor, is a religion of all others most friendly to liberty, science, and the freest expansion of the human mind.

Thomas Jefferson

#33. It offends me to the soul to hear a robustious, 9 periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very 10 rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the 11 most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable 12 dumb shows and noise. I

William Shakespeare

#34. She had thrown away twenty years of her life like a handful of old rags, but the wind had blown them back again, and dressed her in the old uniform.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#35. A man could be in a throne and have no attachment at all; another one could be in rags and have many attachments.

Swami Vivekananda

#36. It ain't what you're driving or the clothes that you wear, material possessions won't matter up there. And someday in heaven, when the angels all sing, well these rags that I'm wearin' will be fit for a king.

Garth Brooks

#37. Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.

Austin O'Malley

#38. Now Suzanne takes your hand
and she leads you to the river
She is wearing rags and feathers
from Salvation Army counters
And the sun pours down like honey
on our lady of the harbour
And she shows you where to look
among the garbage and the flowers

Leonard Cohen

#39. Meet every man as you find him, for we're all made the same under habit, robe or rags. Some better made than others, and some better cared for, but on the same pattern, all.

Ellis Peters

#40. We all are like filthy rags in the site of God; not one clean enough, good enough, righteous enough, to stand before a holy God.

Robin Bertram

#41. Someday in heaven, when the angels all sing, well, these rags that I'm wearing will be fit for a king.

Garth Brooks

#42. Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it 36 years and I'm used to it.

Casey Stengel

#43. I tell you one thing that's great about children. They don't need a show to have fun. What do they need? A book of matches, some oily rags, a little brother ... that's all they need.

Dave Attell

#44. I saw a man clothed with rags ... a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back.

John Bunyan

#45. ...There was a menagerie in which hideous clowns, dressed in rags and come from who knows where, were in 1823 exhibiting to the peasants of Montfermeil one of those hideous Brazilian vultures.

Victor Hugo

#46. A child playing with dolls may shed heartfelt tears when his bundle of rags and scraps becomes deathly ill and dies ... So we may come to an understanding of language as playing with dolls: in language, scraps of sound are used to make dolls and replace all the things in the world.

Velimir Khlebnikov

#47. I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz bar. There was not enough time to write and I didn't know how to write novels. Therefore, I made written collages of aphorisms and rags.

Haruki Murakami

#48. Treat kindly every miserable truth that knocks begging at your door, otherwise you will some day fail to recognize Truth Himself when He comes in rags.

Austin O'Malley

#49. I remember a story of a girl in Paradise who ate an apple once. Some wise Sapient gave it to her. Because of it she saw things differently. What had seemed gold coins were dead leaves. Rich clothes were rags of cobweb. And she saw there was a wall around the world, with a locked gate.

Catherine Fisher

#50. Unfortunately I have no rags-to-riches story to tell. Money never played a big role for me. My parents just had it.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

#51. What strange times we live in, when good must disguise itself in the tawdry rags of evil!

Amin Maalouf

#52. I believe that virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen, ... even if Gargery and Boffin did not speak like gentlemen, they were gentlemen.

Charles Dickens

#53. Something wrong?" Will asked.
"This," Gabriel said. He held up a broadsheet newspaper called the Star. "It's awful."
"I agree," Will said. "Those halfpenny rags are terrible. But you seem to be more upset about them than is appropriate.

Cassandra Clare

#54. The wind pounced on them hard. It had blown some of the cloud away and stretched the rest across the sky like rags on a loom to make a rug. A blue and white and gray rug like that would b pretty, thought Arry. But how do I know that? Do I know it?

Pamela Dean

#55. The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream.

Robert Reich

#56. Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.

Philip Dormer Stanhope

#57. I was the epitome of rags to riches.

Jason Mitchell

#58. When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school.

Annie Lennox

#59. I am extremely proud of my rags-to-riches story. It's fun to be a misfit or an underdog if you acknowledge your gifts and befriend your obstacles.

Kangana Ranaut

#60. Oh, these rags and tags of other people's making! Would he ever be able to call his brain his own? Was there, indeed, anything in it that was truly his own, or was it simply an education?

Aldous Huxley

#61. The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food.

Waverley Root

#62. I like the clothes, too. I should shop flea markets more often."
He laughed at that. "You'd look good in anything, even rags.

B. J. Daniels

#63. In A Midnight Carol Patricia Davis illuminates the dark and brilliant humanity of Charles Dickens
the man who lived a rags-to-riches life more remarkable than any of his stories.

Richard Lederer

#64. If the 'Mystics' were about Isolation..Purity about 'White'..Hermits about 'Rags' and Love about 'Self'...
There is tons above and beyond the visible!!

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#65. Lord Jesus, Your love is beyond my understanding but I believe it's true. Right now I offer You my shame, the filthy rags of my past. I choose to step out of this storm of condemnation and into Your peace. Thank You for loving me and for making me worthy, In Your great name, amen.

Sheila Walsh

#66. Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.

Charles Lamb

#67. Even in some smoky post-catastrophe Manhattan you could imagine him swaying genially at the door in the rags of his former uniform, the Barbours up in the apartment burning old National Geographics for warmth, living off gin and tinned crabmeat.

Donna Tartt

#68. Death reduces all men to the same rank. It strips the rich of his millions and the poor man of his rags ... Death knows no age limits, no partiality. It is a thing that all men fear.

Billy Graham

#69. Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags. The mere minimum of the Church would be a deadly ultimatum to the world.

G.K. Chesterton

#70. And nobody knows what's going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old

Jack Kerouac

#71. My life has been sensationalised into a rags to riches story.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

#72. A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion.

Edmund Burke

#73. The world's proverb is, "God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves;" but to our mind, it is just the rich who have most need of Heaven's help. Dives in scarlet is worse off than Lazarus in rags, unless Divine love shall uphold him.

Charles Spurgeon

#74. To cry out that the emperor had no clothes on was at least to pick on one man only to the amusement of everyone else; to declare that almost everyone is dressed in rags is much less likely to be popular.

Alasdair MacIntyre

#75. With my rags I ought to wear a cap, any sort of old pancake, but not this grotesque thing. Nobody wears such a hat, it would be noticed a mile off, it would be remembered ... . What matters is that people would remember it, and that would give them a clue

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#76. I view anything on this farm as model. I actually painted Union Rags as a yearling.

Jamie Wyeth

#77. Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

Charles Dickens

#78. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.

Thomas Hood

#79. The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life. And we, wrapped round in rags of our virtues, and regarding others through the mist of our self-sufficiency, and persuaded of our universal impeccability, do not understand this.

Maxim Gorky

#80. Argot is nothing more nor less than a wardrobe in which language, having some bad deed to do, disguises itself. It puts on word-masks and metaphoric rags.

Victor Hugo

#81. My lady, for your virtue and goodness, God would receive you in rags.

Alison Weir

#82. There are many new sinners today, but there aren't any new sins, just the old ones clothed in different rags.

Billy Graham

#83. Oh, my tattered rags are caught on your coffee table.

Homer

#84. And so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.

Mark Twain

#85. The best part was
pulling down the
shades
stuffing the doorbell
with rags
putting the phone
in the
refrigerator
and going to bed
for 3 or 4
days. and the next best
part
was
nobody ever
missed
me.

Charles Bukowski

#86. Like a lot of what happens in novels, inspiration is
a sort of spontaneous combustion
the oily rags of the head and heart.

Stanley Elkin

#87. They've pulled me inside out, swapping Mare for Mareena, a thief for a crown, rags for silk, Red for Silver. This morning I was a servant, tonight I'm a princess. How much more will change? What else will I lose?

Victoria Aveyard

#88. [Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.

Deborah Kerr

#89. Some death is as silent as the flight of a bird, some prey as unprotesting as a knot of rags. The

Sue Grafton

#90. To pray is to cast off your burdens, it is to tear away your rags, it is to shake off your diseases, it is to be filled with spiritual vigor, it is to reach the highest point of Christian health.

Charles Spurgeon

#91. So here's where they put you. I didn't think they even used these cells anymore." He glanced sideways. "I got the wrong window at first. Gave your friend in the next cell something of a shock. Attractive fellow, what with the beard and the rags. Kind of reminds me of the street folk back home.

Cassandra Clare

#92. He was particularly disgruntled to see what he had taken for a bundle of old rags on the tracks outside was a human body. He did not say "Not again" (what he said was "Shit on this"), but "Not again" was what he meant.

Peter Straub

#93. Ignorant people always suppose that popular writers are wonderfully well-paid - and must be making rapid fortunes - because they neither starve in garrets, nor wear rags - at least in America.

Eliza Leslie

#94. Innocence wears its own crown, Monsieur; it needs no added dignity; it is as sublime in rags as in royal robes.

Victor Hugo

#95. There, in a livid light, the demons tormented the souls of the damned. The souls preserved the appearance of the bodies which had held them, and even wore some rags of clothing. These souls seemed peaceful in the midst of their torments.

Anatole France

#96. Our righteousness" - never mind our sins! - "is like filthy rags" (Isa. 64:6 NKJV;

Michael S. Horton

#97. In the town live witches nine: three in worsted, three in rags, and three in velvet fine ...

Celia Rees

#98. I'll be damned if death wears my sadness as glad rags.

Ray Bradbury

#99. The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags.

Henry Miller

#100. James Taylor may be an all-American boy but he isn't Horatio Alger, and the lionizing of many rock stars by the rock press has as much to do with old fashioned rags-to-riches stories as does the straight culture's deification of its idols.

Jon Landau