37 Threadbare Quotes
Following is our list of the most famous threadbare quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational threadbare quotes. Hopefully, these threadbare quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your threadbare knowledge!
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Short Threadbare Quotes
- Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time. — Fiona Shaw
- This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school. — Thomas Dekker
- But sometimes everything I write with the threadbare art of my eye seems a snapshot — Robert Lowell
- Yes, threadbare seem his songs, to lettered ken - they were worn threadbare next the hearts of men. — William Watson
- There are many things which may not be uttered by men in threadbare coats. — Juvenal
- 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
- Our bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victories — Horace Walpole
- Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak — Juvenal
People Writing About Threadbare
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Juvenal |
300 | 1355 |
 Fiona Shaw |
42 | 81 |
 Thomas Dekker |
13 | 23 |
 Robert Lowell |
38 | 165 |
 William Watson |
25 | 14 |
 Thomas Brooks |
128 | 1010 |
More Threadbare Quotes
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
There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating words... the language of the schools which 'situates' works and artists in schools and movements... novelists and poets [that] see paintings as allegories of writing. — A. S. Byatt
Death's power is limited -- It cannot eradicate memories Or slay love It cannot destroy even a threadbare faith Or permanently hobble the smallest hope in God It cannot permeate the soul And it cannot cripple the spirit It merely separates us for a while That is the only power death can claim --No more — Donna VanLiere
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. — D. H. Lawrence
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
He learned by sight, scent, and hearing. He heard all that was said, and talked over and over the questions heard; wore them slick, greasy, and threadbare. He went to political and other speeches and gatherings; he would hear all sides and opinions, talk them over and discuss them, agreeing or disagreeing. Abe, as I said before, was originally a Democrat after the order of Jackson, so was his father, so we all were. He preached, made speeches, read for us, explained to us, etc. — William M. Thayer
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings - they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race and the man who orders his life according to their teaching cannot go far wrong. — Norman Douglas
The case against Jeff Sessions was threadbare three decades ago. It's based on hearsay and innuendo and a joke he made about the Klan. — Rich Lowry
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
my childhood grew thin and flat, paperlike. It was tired and threadbare, and in low moments it didn't look like it would last until I was grown up. — Tove Ditlevsen
There's nothing like being in fashion. A man that has once got his character up for a wit is always sure of a laugh, say what he may. He may utter as much nonsense as he pleases, and all will pass current. No one stops to question the coin of a rich man; but a poor devil cannot pass off either a joke or a guinea without its being examined on both sides. Wit and coin are always doubted with a threadbare coat. — Washington Irving
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
Whether surrounded with error or truth, the web woven around them in childhood's days lasts, and seldom wears threadbare...The traditions of my earliest recollection are so forcible upon me that it seems impossible for me to get rid of them. And so it is with others; hence the necessity of correct training in childhood. — Brigham Young
War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through some gleams of light, and not--I am not dreaming--it grows threadbare, and here and there and at a thousand points the light is breaking through. — H. G. Wells
I have this threadbare caftan from the '60s that I got at a vintage store years ago - it's basically a muumuu. My friends are astonished that I wear it, but I love it. It's this light fabric that just moves with me. — Gabrielle Anwar
Is there anything more terrible than a "call"? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and the theatre are the two great centers for the propagation of platitudes. — Miguel de Unamuno
…* to learn that money makes life smooth in some ways, and to feel how tight and threadbare life is if you have too little. * to despise money, which is a farce, mere paper, and to hate what you have to do for it, and yet to long to have it in order to be free from slaving for it. * to yearn toward art, music, ballet and good books, and get them only in tantalizing snatches. — Sylvia Plath
Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough. — Thomas Hardy
People speak because they are afraid of silence. They speak mechanically whether aloud or to themselves. They are intoxicated by this vocal gruel that ensnares every object and every being. They talk about rain and fine weather; they talk about money, about love, about nothing. And even when they are talking about their most exalted love, they use words uttered a hundred times, threadbare phrases. — Andreï Makine
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