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.
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Winter lies too long in country towns hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
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Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
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Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate with shabby equipment always deteriorating in the general mess of imprecision of feeling.
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There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to boast that they rose in the world through their own industry and talents. It is the same shabby-genteel sentiment, the same vanity of birth which makes men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes.
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There is many a good man to be found under a shabby hat.
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The local is a shabby thing. There's nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corner, our own territory, the radiant promiscuity of the face to face. A culture which has taken the risk of the universal, must perish by the universal.
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Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.
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If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.
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