Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The Torah itself becomes coarse in the mouth of a man of pride. — Nachman of Breslov Copy Share Image
The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly or… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
With all its technical sophistication, the photographic camera remains a coarse device compared to the human hand and brain. — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly. — Isabel Burton Copy Share Image
For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal. — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
The everyday choices I make regarding money will influence the very coarse of eternity. — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
It is certain that satirical poems were common at Rome from a very early period. The rustics, who lived at a distance… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross,… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Grace: I picked up my sweater from the floor and crawled back into bed. Shoving my pillow aside, I balled up the… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly;… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Without God, there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience... without God, there is a coarsening of the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
I like the copious, shapeless, warm, not so very clever, but extremely easy and rather coarse aspect of things; the talk of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to wealth. In America there is a touch of shame… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat or violence or accident, may… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Tea at college was served on long tables with an urn at the end of each. Long baguettes of bread, three to… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I want to make a bet with you.” Her interest perked up. “You do? About what?” Already knowing it wouldn’t go over… — Lori Foster Copy Share Image
I have always considered The Merry Wives one of the worst plays, if not altogether the worst, that Shakespeare has left us.… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
I call worldly or earthly those whose minds and hearts are fixed on a tiny portion of this world they live in,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Before Luce could reply, a skinny, dark haired girl appeared in from of her, wagging her long fingers in Luce's face. "Ooooooh,"… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I fell asleep to the scent of my wolf. Pine needles, cold rain, earthy perfume, coarse bristles on my face. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart. — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Our tribe unraveled like a coarse rope, frayed at either end as the old and new among us were taken. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something for others-and it is vile not to endeavor to do… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
A knight whose heart is set upon the Way, but who is ashamed of wearing shabby clothes and eating coarse food, is… — Confucius Copy Share Image
A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
