Threadbare Quotes

#1. How many threadbare souls are to be found under silken cloaks and gowns!

Thomas Brooks

#2. What decadence this belonging rubbish was, what time the rich must have if they could sit around and weave great worries out of such threadbare things.

Sunjeev Sahota

#3. The Army, as usual, are without pay; and a great part of the soldiery without shirts; and though the patience of them is equally threadbare, the States seem perfectly indifferent to their cries.

George Washington

#4. I have this threadbare caftan from the '60s that I got at a vintage store years ago - it's basically a muumuu. My friends are astonished that I wear it, but I love it. It's this light fabric that just moves with me.

Gabrielle Anwar

#5. We who live here wear this corner of the city like a comfortable old coat, an extension of our personalities, threadbare yet retaining a beauty of its own.

Elizabeth Wilson

#6. There are many things which may not be uttered by men in threadbare coats.

Juvenal

#7. It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - the superfluous things that wear our togas threadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores. That which is enough is ready to our hands. He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

Seneca.

#8. Oggie sat facing us in a threadbare blazer and pajama bottoms, as if he'd been expecting company
just not pants-worthy company
...

Ransom Riggs

#9. War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through some gleams of light, and not
I am not dreaming
it grows threadbare, and here and there and at a thousand points the light is breaking through.

H.G.Wells

#10. A little man in a threadbare coat spoke up for the poor as if he really knew what he was talking about. The women with the flowers threw them down for him. "That's Robert Speer," one said. "Something like that. He's our man.

Marge Piercy

#11. If we rub a fabric too often, it will quickly grow threadbare; and Nobu's words had rasped against me so much, I could no longer maintain that finely lacquered surface Mameha had always counseled me to hide behind.

Arthur Golden

#12. The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.

Sam Kean

#13. Usher - threadbare

Herman Melville

#14. He barely even owned his own name, and even that had been worn thin and threadbare through the years.

Patrick Rothfuss

#15. Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.

Fiona Shaw

#16. They never reminisced about the time they had to drive halfway back to Indianapolis because I'd left Dexter Poindexter, my terry-cloth penguin (threadbare, ravaged by love - as who amongst us is not)

Karen Joy Fowler

#17. Because somewhere along the way, a poison had infiltrated their relationship. Quiet and stealthy, it had eaten into the fabric of emotion that bound them until that fabric was threadbare ... and her wolf had withdrawn totally from the relationship.

Nalini Singh

#18. Yes, threadbare seem his songs, to lettered ken - they were worn threadbare next the hearts of men.

William Watson

#19. My soul is like my worn-out Van Gogh t-shirt; threadbare and full of holes

J. Matthew Nespoli

#20. This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.

Thomas Dekker

#21. He hastily pulled off his dressing gown - revealing austere black boxer shorts and a threadbare T-shirt for something called Mogworld - and began twirling it frantically around his head.

Yahtzee Croshaw

#22. Every object has a different role to play. Not all clothes have come to you to be worn threadbare. It is the same with people. Not every person you meet in life will become a close friend or lover.

Marie Kondo

#23. Really? When? Had all his material become threadbare? After thirty years of marriage, were you supposed to come up with new stuff all the time?

Richard Russo

#24. The commonest, dullest, most threadbare topic might be rendered interesting by the skill of the speaker.

Jane Austen

#25. Publishers just want you to write the same book over and over again. But why would I want to do that? It would be like putting on a threadbare dressing-gown day after day.

Philip Kerr

#26. Our bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victories

Horace Walpole

#27. In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety. Profanity is now more than an affectation - it is a convention. The curse against God is Exercise 1 in the primer of minor poetry.

G.K. Chesterton

#28. To dress up today in the threadbare garments of yesterday is to create an impoverished tomorrow.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#29. In the center of that open space, a bony woman in a threadbare garment was hunched over a dead plant.
Sword of Divine Fire's reaction was succinct: "Fuck!" The woman cringed as if he'd hit her with a bullwhip. Then: "What has happened to our potato?

Neal Stephenson

#30. Let us leave it to the reviewers to abuse such effusions of fancy at their leisure and over every new novel to talk in threadbare strains of the trash with which the press now groans.

Jane Austen

#31. Colonel Ridge Zirkander had walked the hall to General Ort's office so many times he suspected his boots were responsible for the threadbare state of the drab gray carpet runner. The two privates standing guard on either side of the door were too well trained to exchange knowing smirks,

Lindsay Buroker

#32. I do not snivel that snivel the world over,
That months are vacuums and the ground but wallow and filth,
That life is a suck and a sell, and nothing remains at the end but threadbare crape and tears.

Walt Whitman

#33. If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare.

William Arnot

#34. Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.

Luc De Clapiers

#35. Every woman that dies or loses her baby on a threadbare cot in the heart of Uganda, while her sisters on the other side of the world enjoy first-class care, is a threat to our collective humanity.

Leila Janah

#36. His uniform seems threadbare and tired, and so does he, as though he's coming apart along the edges.

Ally Condie

#37. Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak

Juvenal

#38. Economize in other things if you must, wear threadbare clothes if necessary, but never cheat your body or brain by the quality and quantity of your food. Poor, cheap food which produces low vitality and inferior brain force is the worst kind of economy.

Orison Swett Marden

#39. That disillusionment, moreover, like all other vogues, having had its beginning in the higher strata of society, had descended to the lower, where it was being worn threadbare, and that, now, those who were really and truly bored strove to conceal their misfortune as if it were a vice.

Mikhail Lermontov

#40. He wouldn't let his son have any name if he could take it from him," returned the old lady. "Look at the son's dress!" It certainly was plain - threadbare - almost shabby. "Yet the father must be garnished and tricked out," said the old lady, "because of his deportment. I'd deport him! Transport

Charles Dickens

#41. Men, she thought, were odd about their clothes: they liked to wear the same things until they became defeated and threadbare.

Alexander McCall Smith

#42. But sometimes everything I write
with the threadbare art of my eye
seems a snapshot

Robert Lowell

#43. When the old creeds are threadbare, and worn through, And all too narrow for the broadening soul, Give me the fine, firm texture of the new, Fair, beautiful and whole!

Henry Ward Beecher

#44. My childhood grew thin and flat, paperlike. It was tired and threadbare, and in low moments it didn't look like it would last until I was grown up.

Tove Ditlevsen

#45. It alters you irrevocably when you reach 30 years old and
see a rip in the fabric of your dreams for every one of those years.
Suddenly you're threadbare to the world.

Elizabeth Chadwick

#46. By then Geoffrey's threadbare soul had been left far behind standing by the side of the highway. Did he feel anything anymore? Warm? Cold? Watching after them, mouth open as if to call out; did he wish at the last moment to have done life differently?

B.P. Gregory

#47. It is vital to avoid mediocrity - living a life of deadness in someone else's threadbare world.

Miriam A. Walker

#48. He wore a threadbare white T-shirt that should've been as noteworthy as a bowl of oatmeal. Instead, it clung to his chest like it had aspirations of taking over for his skin. Hell, she'd have the same life goal.

Christine Bell