Haggard Quotes

• She was wearing the same clothes, but now she looked haggard and dirty. The delicate illusions that get us through life can only stand so much strain.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Dirty, Clothes, Illusion

  Hunter S. Thompson (1999). “The Rum Diary: A Novel”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• Laughter is very young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.

  Lady Margaret Sackville

  Laughter, Tragedy, Young

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• And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.

  Warren Zevon

  Thinking, Safe, Figures

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• If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination

  David Allan Coe

  Class, Would Be, Nominations

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• Up from the dark the moon begins to creep; and now a pallid, haggard face lifts she above the water-line: thus from the deep a drowned body rises solemnly.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Dark, Moon, Water

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites.

  Tanya Tucker

  Country, Thinking, George Jones

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• I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.

  Iris DeMent

  Cash, Bob, Dylan

  "The poor are treated like enemies". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. April 18, 1998.

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• May the merciful god, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when no power of the will, or drug that the cunning of man devises, can keep me from the chasm of sleep. Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but with him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Sleep, Men, Night

  H. P. Lovecraft (2011). “H. P. Lovecraft Fiction Collection”, p.319, Boris Lariushin

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• He looked haggard and careworn, like a Borgia who has suddenly remembered that he has forgotten to shove cyanide in the consommé, and the dinner-gong due any moment.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Dinner, Cyanide, Forgotten

  1925 Carry On, Jeeves,'Clustering Around Young Bingo'.

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• Haggard, I would not be you for all the world," he declared. "You have let your doom in by the front door, although it will not depart that way. (...) Farewell, poor Haggard, farewell!

  Peter S. Beagle

  Farewell, Doors, World

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• I can't be gay! I'm a happily married conservative, just like Ted Haggard and Larry Craig.

  Stephen Colbert

  Gay, Conservative, Married

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• This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practise As full of labour as a wise man's art For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Art, Fall

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Twelfth Night, Or, What You Will”, p.156, Oxford University Press, USA

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• God bless Merle Haggard. He did all the things that Johnny Cash was supposed to have done.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Done, Cash, God Bless

  Lewis Grizzard (1995). “Life Is Like a Dogsled Team . . . If You're Not the Lead Dog, the Scenery Never Changes: The Wit and Wisdom of Lewis Grizzard”, Longstreet Press

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• In the end, oh I know,
  never, in my haggard passion,
  have I ever been such a cadaver as now
  as I take again in hand my tables of the present—
  if reality's real, but after it's been
  destroyed in the eternal and the moment by
  the obsessive idea of a shining nothingness.

  Pier Paolo Pasolini

  Real, Passion, Hands

  Pier Paolo Pasolini, Norman MacAfee, Luciano Martinengo (1982). “Poems”, New York : Random House

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• Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing up in Central Africa I read all Haggard's African novels.

  Walter Smith

  Growing Up, Adventure, Boys

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• In your walks about London you will sometimes see bent, haggard figures that look as if they had recently been caught in some powerful machinery. They are those fellows who got mixed up with Catsmeat when he was meaning well.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Powerful, Meaning Well, Looks

  P.G. Wodehouse (1989). “Aunts Omnibus”, Hutchinson

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• There's just enough drinking and cheating songs around without me adding to them. Unless you've got something better than "Misery and Gin" by Merle Haggard, you're beating a dead horse.

  Aaron Watson

  Cheating, Song, Horse

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• You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends. I'm just a young buck out here trying to keep in that same circle with the rest of 'em.

  George Strait

  Circles, People, Trying

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• Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Kings, Dark, Castles

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad.

  Trisha Yearwood

  Song, Husband, Sound

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• Acting might bring on emotional exhaustion, but writing tired your brains out. Writing led to depression and insomnia and walking around all day with a haggard look.

  Richard Yates

  Writing, Tired, Insomnia

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• Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied with me at the U- Niversity of Gottingen.

  George Canning

  Eye, Thinking, Views

  'Song'

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• I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So I kept going to class and started getting totally into playing guitar and teaching myself these songs.

  Jake Owen

  Country, Song, Dad

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• I think my brand of country music is that's been influenced by not just the rough-stock rodeo side or Ted Nugent's "let's get crazy style", but also the stand-up and sing style's like George Strait and Merle Haggard, and also the wild side of Chris Ledoux

  Cody Johnson

  Country, Crazy, Thinking

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• I just got into it like a lot of people through the rock 'n' roll bands in the late '60s that turned to country music, like The Byrds and Buffalo Springfield, but particularly through The Byrds because of Gram Parsons, Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman (with their 1968 album Sweetheart of the Rodeo). They kind of introduced English kids to Merle Haggard and George Jones and the Louvins (brothers Charlie and Ira).

  Elvis Costello

  Country, Brother, Kids

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