Top Rags Quotes Collection

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Image of Diana Ross
My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy.
- Diana Ross
Collection: Rags
Image of John Ortberg
There is such a love, a love that creates value in what is loved. There is a love that turns rag dolls into priceless treasures. There is a love that fastens itself onto ragged little creatures, for reasons that no one could ever quite figure out, and makes them precious and valued beyond calculation. This is love beyond reason. This is the love of God.
- John Ortberg
Collection: Rags
Image of Deborah Kerr
[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
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Image of Joseph O'Connor
Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.
- Joseph O'Connor
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Image of Katherine Mansfield
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
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Image of Ambrose Bierce
FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that one sees and vacant lots in London
- Ambrose Bierce
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Image of Maggie Stiefvater
Adam had once told Gansey, "Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done.
- Maggie Stiefvater
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Image of John Milton
Arms on armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and the madding wheels Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise Of conflict.
- John Milton
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Image of Alexander Pope
Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.
- Alexander Pope
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Image of Jean Rhys
...I know all about myself now, I know. You've told me so often. You haven't left me one rag of illusion to clothe myself in.
- Jean Rhys
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Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Image of Lord Chesterfield
Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.
- Lord Chesterfield
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Image of Gilbert K. Chesterton
Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Image of Jean-Baptiste Say
The haggardness of poverty is everywhere seen contrasted with the sleekness of wealth, the exhorted labour of some compensating for the idleness of others, wretched hovels by the side of stately colonnades, the rags of indigence blended with the ensigns of opulence; in a word, the most useless profusion in the midst of the most urgent wants.
- Jean-Baptiste Say
Collection: Rags
Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Jean Genet
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
Collection: Rags
Image of Samuel Johnson
Rags will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it.
- Samuel Johnson
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Image of Jack Kerouac
and nobody knows what’s going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old
- Jack Kerouac
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Image of Anne Lamott
You have to keep taking the next necessary stitch, and the next one, and the next. Without stitches, you just have rags. And we are not rags.
- Anne Lamott
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Image of Charles Lamb
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
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Image of Jiddu Krishnamurti
We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogmas, or when we worship our particular nationality, with the rag that is called the flag.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Collection: Rags