Motheaten Quotes
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That vast moth-eaten musical brocade Created to pretend
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I start with the measures which the Government announced last Thursday, and which are the immediate occasion of today's debate, and to which the right hon. Gentleman finally came round - a trifle nervously, I thought - after ploughing through that tedious and tendentious farrago of moth-eaten cuttings presented to him by the Conservative Research Department. I must say that part of his speech was rather like being savaged by a dead sheep.
denis healey— On Sir Geoffrey Howe (Hansard, 14 June, 1978, Col. 1027).
A moth-eaten rag on a worm-eaten pole, It does not look likely to stir a man's Soul, 'Tis the deeds that were done 'neath the moth-eaten rag, When the pole was a staff, and the rag was a flag.
— Sir Sir Edward Hamley on seeing some old Colours of the 32nd Foot in Monmouth Church.
— "Regimental Colours, Banners, and Flags Past and Present", in the regimental website of the Lincoln and Wetland Regiment. Accessed 09 September 2010.
A moth-eaten rag on a worm-eaten pole, It does not look likely to stir a man's soul. 'Tis the deeds that were done 'neath the moth-eaten rag, When the pole was a staff, and the rag was a flag.
— Gen. Sir E. Hamley, referring to the Colors of the 43rd Monmouth Light Infantry.
