Top 30 Quotes About Coarseness
#1. The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.
Joseph Joubert
#2. The great reproach always brought against Rabelais is not the want of reserve of his language merely, but his occasional studied coarseness, which is enough to spoil his whole work, and which lowers its value.
Francois Rabelais
#3. 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
#4. A spirit of candor and frankness, when wholly unaccompanied with coarseness, he
admired in others, but he could not acquire it himself.
Anne Bronte
#5. Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
E. M. Forster
#6. There are a zillion variables to a hamburger. What part of the animal went into it. What coarseness. What temperature.
Danny Meyer
#7. Nobody minds coarseness, but one must draw the line at cruelty
-Lord Peter Wimsey
Dorothy L. Sayers
#8. I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness.
Adolf Hitler
#9. Coarseness occurs in a land where platitude inflames this sense of entitlement to more of almost everything, but less of manners and taste, with their irritating intimations of authority and hierarchy.
George F. Will
#10. As scientific research demonstrates, llama wool's very coarseness and its range of fibers from fine to thick mean that it can be woven into clothing that's superior to down, fleece, sheep wool, and alpaca wool in criteria ranging from warmth to water resistance to usable life.
David Roberts
#11. America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
Lord Byron
#12. What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
Lord Byron
#13. Where there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness.
Henry David Thoreau
#14. He had that combination of savoir-faire with a sort of well-groomed coarseness which is not uncommon in young doctors.
G.K. Chesterton
#15. I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.
Thucydides
#16. Now the images and temples constructed by mechanics are made of inert matter, so that they too are inert, material, and profane. Even if you perfect the art, it partakes of mechanical coarseness. Works of art cannot then be sacred and divine.
Clement Of Alexandria
#17. To achieve great success in literature you must have a certain coarseness in your composition... Really to move and influence men you must have complete understanding, and you can only get that if you have in you something of the common clay of humanity.
W. Somerset Maugham
#18. To read of the unrelenting coarseness and brutality of the boy's father is lowering to the spirit, as is the shame he felt at his mother's reputation for unchastity.
Christopher Hitchens
#19. How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners ...
Nikolai Gogol
#20. A travesty that for coarseness, vulgarity, and buffoonery is almost unexampled even in the literature of that day.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#21. In Scotland, there is a rapid loss of all grandeur of mien and manners; a provincial eagerness and acuteness appear; the poverty of the country makes itself remarked, and a coarseness of manners; and, among the intellectual, is the insanity of dialectics.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#22. You and I are going to happen, that's all I'm sayin'. You say the word, I will make your body feel things that your pretty boy at home has never even come close to making you feel." Holding On (Lights of Peril)
A.C. Bextor
#23. 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
#24. He wanted Ty with him, wanted him badly. Needed him as a partner, and not just at work. Craved him as a lover more than he'd ever jonesed over heroin. Connected with him in so many ways that Zane couldn't see a way to untangle himself and didn't even want to try
Abigail Roux
#25. It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
Benjamin Franklin
#26. I'm not ashamed of any of my papers at all and I'm rather sick of snobs that tell us that they're bad papers, snobs who only read papers that no one else wants. I doubt if they read many papers at all.
Rupert Murdoch
#28. Caius was one of those who gloried in his ignorance, called his lack of letters purity, scorned any subtlety of thought or expression. A man for his time, indeed.
Iain Pears
#29. He is not injured. He's not fit. He's not fit to play football, unfortunately. He played in a reserve game the other day and I could have run about more than he did. I can't pick him.
Harry Redknapp
#30. How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
Nina Simone
