Uncouth Ones Quotes

#1. It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less so. And it's positively uncouth to be proud of something that this Labour government is doing. So, slam me for saying so, but I'm really proud of the NHS.

Lucy Powell

#2. I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned

Patrick Rothfuss

#3. There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.

Edmund Burke

#4. Europeans hate the way Americans talk. They think we're loud and uncouth and they don't like our jokes, except for Michael Moore. Plus, they resent the fact that they've had to learn our language because if they didn't we wouldn't buy their stupid metric widgets or visit their overpriced ruins.

Denis Boyles

#5. Moi?" He put his hand over his heart and did his best wounded-innocent look. "You must be thinking of some other uncouth jackass. Which makes me jealous, by the way.

Rachel Caine

#6. This costume, utterly uncouth, seemed to have been invented as a final test of grace, and to show that there was nothing too ridiculous for fashion to consecrate.

Honore De Balzac

#7. Within the oyster's shell uncouth
The purest pearl may hide,
Trust me you'll find a heart of truth
Within that rough outside.

Frances Sargent Osgood

#8. I jabbered too much in class about all the Russian writers whom I admired for being, among other things, uncouth and somewhat humorously melodramatic, such as Gogol and Dostoyevsky, just as it was in my own household when I was growing up.

Richard Elman

#9. It was love that had worked the revolution in him, changing him from an uncouth sailor to a student and an artist; therefore, to him, the finest and greatest of the three, greater than learning and artistry, was love.

Jack London

#10. If there's one quality I hate in a woman, it's modesty. Besides making me, with my trombone mouth, feel vaguely uncouth, I think it's a chickenshit response to the demands of the marketplace, or the universe, not that I can tell them apart.

Emily Carter

#11. If a novelist were so uncouth and possessed of so little moral sense that he should write of illicit love, his book would be barred from the public libraries and he woukd be ostracized by society.

Clyde Brion Davis

#12. The ministers of Christ should possess refinement. All uncouth manners, attitudes and gestures should be discarded, and they should encourage in themselves humble dignity of bearing.

Ellen G. White

#13. The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness.

Ludwig Von Mises

#14. To the Greeks [the Macedonians] were uncouth, semi-civilized barbarians. The Macedonians for their part despised the Greeks as effete, wishy-washy Greeklings. Both regarded the Thracians as scarcely capable of walking on their hind legs.

Nicholas Sekunda

#15. Time makes ancient good uncouth.

James Russell Lowell

#16. Wheresoe'er I turn my view,
All is strange, yet nothing new:
Endless labor all along,
Endless labor to be wrong:
Phrase that Time has flung away;
Uncouth words in disarray,
Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet,
Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.

Samuel Johnson

#17. The way I grew up, I was always taught that it's uncouth to talk about money, and that's not what should inspire you.

Justin Timberlake

#18. Lieutenant Trotta wasn't experienced enough to know that uncouth peasant boys with noble hearts exist in real life and that a lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written.

Joseph Roth

#19. The female heart is a labyrinth of subtleties, too challenging for the uncouth mind of the male racketeer.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#20. If you go to Florence, it has all surface beauty, but like Venice, it's simply a museum of Renaissance times. Los Angeles is raw, uncouth and bizarre, but it's a place of substance. It has more new horizons than any other place.

Werner Herzog

#21. On him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body.

Jean Genet

#22. The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.

V.S. Pritchett

#23. To reject wisdom because the person communicates it is uncouth and his manners are inelegant, what is it but to throw away a pine-apple, and assign for a reason the roughness of its coat?

Thomas Hartwell Horne

#24. Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.

Garet Garrett

#25. How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims nor understand one of its pleasures?

Hermann Hesse

#26. Only an uncouth person would wear snail snot- Albert

Lynda Mullaly Hunt

#27. I could've totally cut out your heart before you knew what was happening." "What stopped you?" "I thought Montgomery might've been pissed off at all the blood on the sheets." "Montgomery would never be something as uncouth as pissed off. Annoyed in an icily genteel manner, perhaps.

Nalini Singh

#28. New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.

James Russell Lowell

#29. Uh, all right. Boss, you're infuriating when you're logical!" "Yes, a most uncouth way to argue.

Robert A. Heinlein

#30. Truth will keep on telling the truth
Lies will lie to be more uncouth
No more rainbow after the storm
Nowhere to escape leaving the norm

Munia Khan