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I saw a man clothed with rags ... a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back.
— John Bunyan
My life has been sensationalised into a rags to riches story.
— Jonathan Rhys Meyers
I was the epitome of rags to riches.
— Jason Mitchell
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
The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.
— Charles A. Reich
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
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
In the town live witches nine: three in worsted, three in rags, and three in velvet fine ...
— Celia Rees
Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.
— Alexander Pope
Mama sewed the rags together, sewing every piece with love. She made my coat of many colors that I was proud of.
— Dolly Parton
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
Virtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness.
— Philip Massinger
Our righteousness" - never mind our sins! - "is like filthy rags" (Isa. 64:6 NKJV;
— Michael S. Horton
My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches,' but in fact, the Rosses were never raggedy.
— Diana Ross
There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.
— Herman Melville
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
From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.
— Criss Jami
Chocolate, something salty, and a box of hag rags gave
— Debra Anastasia
Still, I think it grieves the heart of God when human beings created in His image treat other human beings like filthy rags.
— Jonathan Kozol
She had arrived in dirty rags and had cooked up a striking outfit for herself, out of relief donations,
— Tom Piazza
And all our righteousnesses are filthy rags and we all do fade as a leaf and our inequities like the wind have taken us away
— Miriam Toews
Through your rags I see your vanity.
— Socrates
There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
— George Farquhar
A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion.
— Edmund Burke
People read what news they wanted to and each accordingly built his own rathouse of history's rags and straws.
— Thomas Pynchon
In the army of indigence the uniform is rags; they serve to distinguish the rank and file from the recruiting officers.
— Ambrose Bierce
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
Sophia Loren would be a glamour girl even if she were in rags selling fish. She has the look, the movement and the intellect.
— Hedy Lamarr
A crap upbringing doesn't make someone weak, it makes them strong or how else could they get through it.
— Suzanne Wrightt
It's nice to get your glad rags on for awards like the Baftas, but it doesn't happen all the time.
— Dan Stevens
Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato.
— Jonathan Swift
If a woman recognizes her power, she can present herself in rags and people will recognize her as queen.
— Beth Kery
Like a robe wears out over time and turns to rags, life wears out from day to day, from second to second.
— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise.
— Mark Akenside
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
What strange times we live in, when good must disguise itself in the tawdry rags of evil!
— Amin Maalouf
The tragedy of power like mine is that there is no way down. There can only be extinction. Dust to dust; rags to rags; fear to fear.
— V.S. Naipaul
Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.
— Austin O'Malley
Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
And nobody knows what's going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old
— Jack Kerouac
Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.
— Joseph O'Connor
I'll be damned if death wears my sadness as glad rags.
— Ray Bradbury
A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.
— Carl Sandburg
Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.
— William Shakespeare
Just so sure as one puts on any old rag, and thinks nobody will come, company is sure to call.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
Someday in heaven, when the angels all sing, well, these rags that I'm wearing will be fit for a king.
— Garth Brooks
We tell rags-to-riches stories because we find something captivating in the idea of a lone hero battling overwhelming odds.
— Malcolm Gladwell
The Lord of Rags and Tatters.
— Megan Whalen Turner
Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.
— Charles Dickens
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
Better the pride that resides as a citizen of the world than a pride that divides when a colorful rag is unfurled
— Neil Peart
When the soldier is hit by a cannon-ball, rags are as becoming as purple.
— Henry David Thoreau
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
One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
There are many new sinners today, but there aren't any new sins, just the old ones clothed in different rags.
— Billy Graham
I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.
— John Steinbeck
A chill December morning dawned, with rags and tatters of mist hanging on the trees like poor people's washing.
— Ken Follett
Adam had once told Gansey, Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done.
— Maggie Stiefvater
In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
— Leonard Cohen
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
We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.
— Angela Carter
The woman from the depths of her rags, a waif, a martyr - smiled. She must have a divine heart to be so tired and yet smile.
— Henri Barbusse
The wind bit hard at Valley Forge one Christmas.Soldiers tied rags on their feet.
Red footprints wrote on the snow ... — Carl Sandburg
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
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
— Walter Scott
With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.
— Thomas Hood
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
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
— John Donne
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
Some death is as silent as the flight of a bird, some prey as unprotesting as a knot of rags. The
— Sue Grafton
Innocence wears its own crown, Monsieur; it needs no added dignity; it is as sublime in rags as in royal robes.
— Victor Hugo
Who's poorer, the one who begs for money or those who have not enough to give away? Or are they reflecting one another and the same nature?
— Robin Sacredfire
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
Even in rags I am a god,fallen I am divine,high I triumph when down-trod,long I live when slain!
— Sri Aurobindo
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