Threadbare Quotes

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

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school. - Thomas Dekker

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

I don't like your miserable lonely single ''front name.'' It is so limited, so meager; it has no versatility; it is weighted down with the sense of responsibility; it is worn threadbare with much use; it is as bad as having only one jacket and one hat; it is like having only one relation, one blood relation, in the world. Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind. - D.H. Lawrence

Eloquence under a threadbare cloak. - Juvenal

Despite the best efforts of the news media, it's impossible to sense the confusion, observe the destruction, smell the stench, hear the cries, dry the tears, clothe the threadbare, as well as hug and feed the hurting and hungry unless you're here. - Bobby Welch

Affluence was, quite simply, a question of texture ... The threadbare carpets of infancy, the coconut matting, the ill-laid linoleum, the utility furniture ... had all spoken of a life too near the bones of subsistence, too little padded, too severely worn. - Margaret Drabble

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time. - Fiona Shaw