What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours; and… — Veronica Franco 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
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
you're an insomniac, you tell yourself: there are profound truths revealed only to the insomniac by night like those phosphorescent minerals veined… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Imagination is usually regarded as a synonym for the unreal. Yet is true imagination healthful and real, no more likely to mislead… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments,… — George Eliot 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
Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not… — George Eliot 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
Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is clear from a common sense viewing of the program that coarse language is a part of the culture of the… — Jonathan Adelstein 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
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
The worldly wisdom of the foolish man Is like a sieve, that does alone retain The grosser substance of the worthless bran:… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
The man who now confronted Gashford, was a squat, thickset personage, with a low, retreating forehead, a coarse shock head of hair,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Believe me, the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, eats oftener a sweeter morsel, however coarse, than… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
He wished she knew his impressions; but he would as soon have thought of carrying an odour in a net as of… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I have nothing to make me miserable," she said, getting calmer; "but can you understand that everything has become hateful, loathsome, coarse… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I felt that the decrepit state of these once magnificent buildings, with their broken gutters, walls blackened by rainwater, crumbling plaster revealing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Beautiful women, whose beauty meant more than it said... was their brilliancy always fed by something coarse and concealed? Was that their… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
