“ Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun! ”
- Alexander Blok- Copy
- 3.4K
“ I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps. ”
- Peggy Noonan- Copy
- 1.6K
“ The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart. ”
- Johann Kaspar Lavater- Copy
- 3.7K
“ The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world. ”
- Walt Whitman- Copy
- 2.2K
“ The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire. ”
- William R. Alger- Copy
- 3.6K
“ It was not… that she was unaware of the frayed and ragged edges of life. She would merely iron them out with a firm hand and neatly hem them down. ”
- P. D. James- Copy
- 223
“ Yes, threadbare seem his songs, to lettered ken - they were worn threadbare next the hearts of men. ”
- William Watson- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Decision is a sharp knife that cuts or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it. ”
- Gordon Graham- Copy
- 799
“ For God's sake don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print… substitute drunken dog, ragged head, self-shaven, odd-eyed, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the gentleman in question. ”
- Charles Lamb- Copy
- 1.8K
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