Coarse Quotes

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Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present. — Cyril Connolly
A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also. — Henry David Thoreau
I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly… — Henry David Thoreau
Believe me, the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, eats oftener a sweeter morsel, however coarse, than he who procures… — Washington Irving
Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to… — Lord Chesterfield
It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something for others-and it is vile not to endeavor to do it. — Edward Dahlberg
Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go… — Walter Benjamin
The culture is just so coarse that you have to take it to that level and people will be like, 'Whoa!' And then you can… — Matt Stone
You can imagine a soul as being a detailed, elaborate pattern that exists very clearly in one brain. When a person dies, the original is… — Douglas Hofstadter
Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life. Its… — Constance Rourke
For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal. — Carl Bernstein
Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is… — Henry Adams
The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who… — Margaret D. Nadauld
It is certain that satirical poems were common at Rome from a very early period. The rustics, who lived at a distance from the seat… — Thomas B. Macaulay
For the devil is better pleased with coarse blockheads and with folks who are useful to nobody; because where such characters abound, then things do… — Martin Luther
The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow. — Samuel Johnson
But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; neither filthiness, nor foolish talking,… — Paul the Apostle
Imagination is usually regarded as a synonym for the unreal. Yet is true imagination healthful and real, no more likely to mislead than the coarse… — John Muir
The native Jewish families in Jerusalem, as well as those in other parts of Palestine, present a marked difference to the Jews of Europe and… — Bayard Taylor

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