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Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection. — Peter De Vries

Of course, New Brighton is very shabby, very rundown, but people still go there because it's the place where you take kids out on a Sunday. — Martin Parr

Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major. — George Bernard Shaw

How shabby the truth can become when one articulates it. — Erich Maria Remarque

It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans. — Rick Springfield

She was flanked by a skinny redhead and an older girl, dressed with the same shabby afterthought. As if dredged from a lake. — Emma Cline

There's nothing like undeserved credit to make you feel shabby. — Charlene Weir

Snot is running down his nose, greasy fingers, smearing shabby clothes. — Jethro Tull

Captain Queernabs A shabby-looking man in poor clothes — Stephen Hart

One could not stay a month without loving the shabby town — Henry Adams

She did not understand grunge, the idea of looking shabby because you could afford not to be shabby; it mocked true shabbiness. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I'm a shabby dresser. — Chuck Feeney

Not all shabby is chic, just like not every porn actor is a star. — Sloane Crosley

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes. — W. H. Auden

Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

A knight whose heart is set upon the Way, but who is ashamed of wearing shabby clothes and eating coarse food, is not worth calling into counsel. — Confucius

When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes. — W. H. Auden

It's great to feel happy. Go, do what makes you feel happy. Do it shabbily and get shallow happiness; Do it hard and feel the hardest happiness! — Israelmore Ayivor

Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I'd been born to morons, and mine was a shabby life. — M. J. Hyland

What a shabby lot of highbrows have turned out tonight," he said, when he saw us. "It makes me ashamed to be one. — Anthony Powell

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien. — Edward Dahlberg

Maclintick's calculatedly humdrum appearance, although shabby, seemed aimed at concealing bohemian affiliations. — Anthony Powell

We're not trying for perfect - we're aiming for posh shabby chic. — Rachael Lucas

They want to deceive their people first because now they are in a very shabby situation — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. — O. Henry

Vengeance is the cheapest of motivations, it's a tin star on a shabby coat. I want answers is all that I want. — Ben H. Winters

In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti. — James Thurber

We stayed in some pretty shabby places in Europe. — Phil Collins

What if my trousers are shabby and worn, they cover a warm hearth. — Thomas Lansing Masson

There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself. — Jay McInerney

I'm not on chef level, but I'd make a good line cook. That's not too shabby. — Jon Favreau

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to. — Edgar Friedenberg

A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one. — Willa Cather

How much, let me note, depends upon trousers; the intelligent head is entirely handicapped by shabby trousers. — Virginia Woolf

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. — Willa Cather

Such is true joy's absolute certainty,
Its slow lit fuse that burns holes
In the shabby shroud of death forever. — Scott Hastie

My mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in. — Alice Walker

If you had not done such a shabby thing to me I would not have had you kidnapped. — Georgette Heyer

The abandonment came, and now this shabby bacchanal. — Suzanne Finnamore

A boy and a girl, dressed in the T-shirts and denim that are the shabby uniform of this age. — Michael Scott

A new-comer of any age or either sex was an impressive curiosity in the poor little shabby village of St. Petersburg. — Mark Twain