There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to boast that they rose in the world through their own industry and talents. It is the same shabby-genteel sentiment, the same vanity of birth which makes men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes.
W. Winwood Reade
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If me or one of my (North) teammates couldn't win it, I was glad to see 'Shabby' win it. He had a great first half. We did a better job on him in the second.
Javario Byrd
It's actually not too shabby. Relative to what I was looking for, and this doesn't include PEC (Solutions results), the U.S. was stronger and enterprise was stronger, and the gross margins were a little bit stronger.
Steve Levy
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
Willa Cather
The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance.
Sid Vicious
It's going to be real exciting for us. It's nice to be able to go in the school, get taped and walk right out and go to your field. That's always been something we've wanted. Even though our (old) Saints Field was a little bit shabby, it was our field. It was something we could call home. This field has turned out immaculate.
Bobby Moews
Western wear is at its peak. I mix the traditional type of Western wear with what I call 'shabby chic cowgirl', and it's very popular.
Bobbi Faria
Dogs are all, more or less, physiognomists, and commonly pretty determined aristocrats, fond of the fine and averse to the shabby, distinguishing, with a nice accuracy, the master castes from the pariahs of the world.
Mary Russell Mitford
[The City Council updated its taxicab regulations in December, said Alderman Robert Reynolds, who proposed the update.] We needed to clean up the cab ordinance and make it so it would take care of the city's senior citizens and [other] citizens, ... The cars looked awful. It was shabby and piecemeal.
Robert Reynolds
It is pretty sad that Shell is spending a lot of money to rebuild their image and then goes on to score such an own goal. I think it is shabby of Shell.
Peter Buckley
I'm definitely satisfied. With 57 kids in the weight class and I finished third in the nation, not too shabby. You take what you get. Not about to pout. It was my last high school match and I went out with a win.
Jeremie Cook
Blake did what we needed him to do for us tonight. My nerves were a little shabby at the beginning of the game, but it's good to know that we have a guy that will go out and battle for us. He's going to give us a chance to win every time he takes the mound.
Hal Hayden
You see the characters capable of wonderful and shabby behavior. Anne is more complex. She?s the one you see make the journey. She gives her inner thoughts. She?s very harsh on her mother. I think the characters are richer.
James Edmondson
In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
Sinclair Lewis
Not too shabby. They're at six right now and are one point away from fifth. They have three or four left on the board, and within the next 48 hours if they get some of those they could get into the Top 5 and maybe even the Top 3.
Jeremy Crabtree
O hideous little bat, the size of snot, With polyhedral eye and shabby clothes.
Karl Shapiro
[But noting that the people who will be doing this are] reputable, ... coming in and doing something shabby.
Thomas Adams
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
W. H. Auden
We came out and played soft and gave up two goals immediately. After that, it was nice to have that one goal, but we didn't fix the problem. With some of the teams we've played we've gotten away with that, gotten away with some shabby things -- and against these guys you can't do that.
James Causey
Thank goodness for Rachel Ashwell and shabby chic -- that's our inspiration.
Laryl Morrison
That's not too shabby! (his catchphrase_.
David Sneddon
The guy on the other side is not too shabby.
Drew Brees
It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
Edgar Z. Friedenberg
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