Coarseness Quotes
12 quotes by 11 authors
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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
— Lord Byron
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Now the images and temples constructed by mechanics are made of inert matter, so that they too are inert, material, and profane. Even if you…
— Clement of Alexandria
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What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in…
— Lord Byron
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That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things,…
— Frederick Jackson Turner
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I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness…
— Thucydides
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I am glad that I am not raising kids today. And I’m rather pessimistic that my grandchildren will enjoy the great society that I’ve enjoyed…
— Antonin Scalia
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Our culture has few taboos that can't be violated, and our establishment has largely given up on setting standards in the first place. Except where…
— Ross Douthat
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We note the increasing coarseness of language and understand how Lot must have felt when he was, according to Peter, "vexed with the filthy conversation…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian and Persian fables,…
— Max Nordau
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Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
— E. M. Forster
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...how much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners...
— Nikolai Gogol
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To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts —…
— Charlotte Bronte
Who Wrote These Coarseness Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 12 Coarseness Quotes as follows: