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Dregs Quotes

What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work?

What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work?

William Gaddis
Artist, Dregs, Shambles
William Gaddis (2002). “The Rush for Second Place: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.93, Penguin

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

Voltaire
Excellent, Middle, Dregs

What is written is merely the dregs of experience.

Franz Kafka
Dregs, Written

Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable circles.

Peter L. Bernstein
Gambling, Circles, Dregs
Peter L. Bernstein (2012). “Peter L. Bernstein Classics Collection: Capital Ideas, Against the Gods, The Power of Gold and Capital Ideas Evolving”, p.321, John Wiley & Sons

Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.

Horace
Fly Away, Dregs, Has Beens

The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.

Joseph Joubert
Fall, May, Dregs
Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.106

Friendship's full of dregs.

William Shakespeare
Friendship, Dregs
William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.64

Friendship is full of dregs.

William Shakespeare
Friendship, Dregs
William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.64

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