Top 184 Rags Quotes & Sayings

It's nice to get your glad rags on for awards like the Baftas, but it doesn't happen all the time.

the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.

I'll be damned if death wears my sadness for glad rags.

Madam Walker was a woman who transformed herself in a very American, rags-to-riches way.

Memory is a crazy woman who hoards colored rags and throws away food.

From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.

Someday in heaven, when the angels all sing, well, these rags that I'm wearing will be fit for a king.

Rags will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it.

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.

The image of entrepreneurship as the province of the unprivileged and un-entitled - the Horatio Alger, rags to riches myth - flies in the face of reality.

The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise.

When a soldier is hit by a cannonball, rags are as becoming as purple.

Wardrobe is - in films, I could say it's a good half of the acting. You get the right rags on, they'll talk for you.

Adam had once told Gansey, "Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done.

Your incredible brain can take you from rags to riches, from loneliness to popularity, and from depression to happiness and joy - if you use it properly.

The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.

Like a lot of what happens in novels, inspiration is a sort of spontaneous combustion--the oily rags of the head and heart.

And so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.

A man could be in a throne and have no attachment at all; another one could be in rags and have many attachments.

Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.

Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.

So please get your rags And your polishing jars, Somebody has to go polish the stars.

In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.

The Lord of Rags and Tatters.

I am the man who has risen from rags to riches.

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.

and nobody knows what’s going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

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.

[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.

I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.

The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food.

My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy.

I view anything on this farm as model. I actually painted Union Rags as a yearling.

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.

My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches,' but in fact, the Rosses were never raggedy.

A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion.

The balancing of the budget will not in itself place a teaspoonful of milk in a hungry baby's stomach, or remove the rags from its mother's back.

Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

The wind bit hard at Valley Forge one Christmas. Soldiers tied rags on their feet. Red footprints wrote on the snow...

One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.

If God was willing to wrap himself in rags and drink from a mother's breast, then all questions about his love for us are off the table.

You have to keep taking the next necessary stitch, and the next one, and the next. Without stitches, you just have rags. And we are not rags.

Ah, Father! That’s words and only words! Forgive! If he’d not been run over, he’d have come home today drunk and his only shirt dirty and in rags and he’d have fallen asleep like a log, and I should have been sousing and rinsing till daybreak, washing his rags and the children’s and then drying them by the window and as soon as it was daylight I should have been darning them. What’s the use of talking forgiveness! I have forgiven as it is!

I was the epitome of rags to riches.

Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.

Virtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness.

Mama sewed the rags together, sewing every piece with love. She made my coat of many colors that I was proud of.

Oh, my tattered rags are caught on your coffee table.

With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.

Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

The man forget not, though in rags he lies, And know the mortal through a crown's disguise.

There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.

I have played nasty people, but not everyone has seen that stuff. Before 'The Office,' I mainly got cast as little toe-rags.

Life is nothing but rags and tags and filthy rags at that.

My life has been sensationalised into a rags to riches story.

Unfortunately I have no rags-to-riches story to tell. Money never played a big role for me. My parents just had it.

The ultimate idea of rags-to-riches success in America is the Hollywood movie star.

I subscribe to that school of thespian - to be a wandering minstrel or traveling player, a thing of rags and patches, of ballads, songs and snatches.