I don't like to be coarse, but if I did, I would be!…

“When you snatch happiness in little bits, fits and starts, and lose it, like me, you become coarse, little by little, you become hateful.”

— Sarah Ruhl

Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears…

— Oscar Wilde

Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors…

— Henry David Thoreau

It didn’t and doesn’t turn out well. There is no happy ending to the story of sorrow if you are born with a predilection…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

Music may appeal to crude and coarse feelings or to refined and noble ones; and in so far as it does the latter it…

— Herbert Spencer

The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to…

— Walter Benjamin

It had never occurred to him that the body of a woman of fifty, blown up to monstrous dimensions by childbearing, then hardened, roughened…

— George Orwell

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

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

There is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to wealth. In America there is a touch of shame when a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A glass pitcher, a wicker basket, a tunic of coarse cloth. Their beauty is inseparable from their function. Handicrafts belong to a world existing…

— Octavio Paz

It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunds of gut and…

— Kingsley Amis

No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition…

— William Ellery Channing

Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals - for all that is admirable in man is the…

— H. P. Lovecraft

I have always considered The Merry Wives one of the worst plays, if not altogether the worst, that Shakespeare has left us. The wit…

— George Henry Lewes