The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom; He knows himself but does not display himself; He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of… — Constance Rourke Copy Share Image
My hair is pretty wavy. And it's coarse and color-treated so I'm big on conditioner and conditioning masks. — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
The mind of a poet often performs miracles-a few coarse-grained words, apprehended become bullets and roses. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the most commonplace, tiresome, ridiculous, malicious, coarse, crude, or even crooked people or events I had to seek out rare things,… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
So much of the humor on new sitcoms plays to the lowest common denominator. Wit isn't nearly given as much attention as… — Betty White Copy Share Image
Do not be caught by the sensational in nature, as a coarse red-faced sunset, a garrulous waterfall, or a fifteen thousand foot… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
This coarse and insulting way of regarding woman, as though they existed merely to be the safety-valves of men's passions, and that… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I don't use coarse language very often. I have a larger vocabulary than that. — John McCain Copy Share Image
The knives in my apartment are only sharp enough to open envelopes with. Cutting a slice of coarse bread is on the… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
He who needs only coarse food, water and drink, and as pillow his folded arms will find happiness without further search. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can't help… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Toward seven o'clock every morning, I leave my study and step Out on the bright terrace; the sun already burns resplendent Between… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
