Shabby

Famous quotes containing the word shabby:

“Up through the lubber crust of Wales
I rocketed to astonish
The flashing needle rock of squatters,
The criers of Shabby and Shorten,
The famous stitch droppers.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

“It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.”
—Edgar Z. Friedenberg (b. 1921)

“Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.”
—Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977)