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Coarse Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow.
- Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes…
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- We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society… — Carl Bernstein
- Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of… — Charles Babbage
- The knives in my apartment are only sharp enough to open envelopes with. Cutting a slice of coarse bread is on the… — Peter Høeg
- Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual. — Thomas de Quincey
- Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present. — Cyril Connolly
- Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they… — Lord Chesterfield
- Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights… — Samuel Johnson
- The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology. — Christian Nestell Bovee