A Quote by William Watson

Threadbare his songs seem now, to lettered ken: They were worn threadbare next the hearts of men.

William Watson

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Hearts His Ken Men Next Now Seem Songs Were Worn

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William Watson
English - Poet
August 2, 1858 - August 13, 1935

Yes, threadbare seem his songs, to lettered ken - they were worn threadbare next the hearts of men.

William Watson

Our bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victories

Horace Walpole

When the old creeds are threadbare, and worn through, And all too narrow for the broadening soul, Give me the fine, firm texture of the new, Fair, beautiful and whole!

Henry Ward Beecher

There are many things which may not be uttered by men in threadbare coats.

Juvenal

The Army, as usual, are without pay; and a great part of the soldiery without shirts; and though the patience of them is equally threadbare, the States seem perfectly indifferent to their cries.

George Washington

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.

Fiona Shaw

If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare.

William Arnot

Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak

Juvenal

In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety. Profanity is now more than an affectation - it is a convention. The curse against God is Exercise I in the primer of minor poetry.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

But sometimes everything I write with the threadbare art of my eye seems a snapshot

Robert Lowell

How many threadbare souls are to be found under silken cloaks and gowns!

Thomas Brooks

Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.

Luc de Clapiers

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.

Thomas Dekker

I don't like your miserable lonely single front name. It is so limited, so meager; it has no versatility; it is weighted down with the sense of responsibility; it is worn threadbare with much use; it is as bad as having only one jacket and one hat; it is like having only one relation, one blood relation, in the world. Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.