Garrets

A truth which has the downside of keeping many true artists poor in garrets and many false ones rich in mansions was universally acknowledged yesterday. ❋ Edward Willett (2006)

Typhoid and tuberculosis and bankruptcy were handy tools for the author, providing sudden death or disgrace when needed, but they also reflected a familiar social reality: artists did indeed die of ill health in garrets, and businessmen were ruined on the stock exchange. ❋ Unknown (2001)

There is no country yet that has had money enough to give a good home to all of its people, so that its children may not need to be born: n cellars and be crowded in garrets, and live down in ugly, dirty streets. ❋ Unknown (1919)

So long as multitudes of our people who are doing the work of the world live in garrets and cellars, in ignorance, poverty, and vice, it is the duty of Congress to apply the surplus in the national treasury to objects which will feed, clothe, shelter, and educate these wards of the State. ❋ Unknown (1898)

It is sad to see so many American girls and boys, who have no genius for painting or sculpture, spending their days in garrets, in solitude and poverty, with the vain hope of earning distinction. ❋ Unknown (1898)

These, by the pressure of want, are necessitated to fill the places once filled, but now vacated, by the very women who are now far removed from cities, from poverty and from toil, with the birds, the flowers, the trees and the beautiful of which they are a part; and those shams of men fill their places in garrets and cellars. ❋ Unknown (1870)

"My rooms are what they call garrets, right up in the roof, with ❋ Thomas Hughes (1859)

a matter of what they discuss — work in garrets, poor relief, popular songs and political protest, for example. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Oh, there's probably a lot of fantastic poop stories locked away by shy spinsters living alone in garrets. ❋ Marshallpayne1 (2009)

Literature, in his mind, is connected with the idea of garrets and extreme poverty; and, therefore, having the national respect for money, he in secret, if not in public, despises it. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

In the garrets was his library, a large and miscellaneous collection of books, falling to pieces and begrimed with dust. ❋ Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1829)

However, not a hand's-breadth is left to crowd a picture in of the smallest size; and even the upper rooms, which might be called garrets, are not naked, but have some very good pieces in them. ❋ Daniel Defoe (1696)

However, not a hand’s-breadth is left to crowd a picture in of the smallest size; and even the upper rooms, which might be called garrets, are not naked, but have some very good pieces in them. ❋ Unknown (2003)

All the charitable institutions have exhausted their means in trying to raise supplies of food for the famishing residents of the garrets and cellars of London lanes and alleys. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I fantasized that they had toiled away in their garrets, crafting their stories just for me. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Together and separately, the men chase their quarry from unseemly garrets and drinking dens to sophisticated salons and culture palaces. ❋ Tom Nolan (2011)