Quotes of: Coarse Keyword

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

E. M. Forster

The media love coarse debate because coarse debate drives ratings and ratings generate profits. Unless the TV producer happens to be William Shakespeare, an argument is more interesting than a soliloquy - and there will never be a shortage of people ...

John Sununu

Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.

George Will

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

Lord Byron

The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly, or mean.

Kevin DeYoung

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

Carl Bernstein

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

Cyril Connolly

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

In wine is truth, and the truth had all come out, "that is, all the uncleanness of his coarse and envious heart"!

Crime and Punishment

Emancipation resulting in madness. Unlimited freedom to choose and play a tremendous variety of roles with a lot of coarse energy.

Herzog

Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.

Thomas de Quincey

The entertainment world, television, movies, social media, YouTube stuff, we're so bombarded with so much imagery and such a great sense of inhumanity, and there is a coarseness, a coarsening of interaction.

Steven Bochco

If one is talking about a vile thing it is better to talk of it in coarse language; one is less likely to be seduced into excusing it.

G.K. Chesterton

Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die.

Charles Babbage

They pay thousands and thousands for the Van Goghs and Modiglianis they'd have spat on at the time they were painted. Guffawed at. Made coarse jokes about.

The Collector

Aygi Cycle (4) Coarse hawthorn beloved uncle's memory entwined among its gnarled and armored limbs copy of Lolita by his deathbed

Thread

The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.

Zorba the Greek

There is a coarse and ugly temperament and tenor observable in the common unconscious person.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

George Eliot

Rudeness, abruptness, gory tales of blood and thunder, and coarse language usually show up the greenhorn or counterfeit, and certainly the ill-bred. "The bravest are the tenderest; the gentlest are the daring.

Kenneth W. Estes