Uncouth Quotes

24 quotes by 24 authors

Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder. — Russell Baker
There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall,… — Edmund Burke
If you go to Florence, it has all surface beauty, but like Venice, it's simply a museum of Renaissance times. Los Angeles is raw, uncouth… — Werner Herzog
Too much truth is uncouth. — Franklin P. Adams
We are rag dolls made out of many ages and skins, changelings who have slept in wood nests, and hissed in the uncouth guise of… — Loren Eiseley
With the broad and powerful swing of the hand which Zola in The Earth gave to his ploughman, L'Auto, journal of ideas and action, is… — Henri Desgrange
The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life. — V. S. Pritchett
A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk's bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth,… — Plutarch
The way I grew up, I was always taught that it's uncouth to talk about money, and that's not what should inspire you. — Justin Timberlake
Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business. — Garet Garrett
No language is as depending on arbitrary use and custom can ever be permanently the same, but will always be in a mutable and fluctuating… — Benjamin Martin
New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth. — James Russell Lowell
You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly… — Brigham Young
Dig -- the mostly uncouth -- language of grace. — Geoffrey Hill
It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less so. And it's positively uncouth to be proud of something that this Labour… — Lucy Powell
The ministers of Christ should possess refinement. All uncouth manners, attitudes and gestures should be discarded, and they should encourage in themselves humble dignity of… — Ellen G. White
Oh! that look of love!" continued he, between his teeth, as he bolted himself into his own private room. "And that cursed lie; which showed… — Elizabeth Gaskell
How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims nor understand one… — Hermann Hesse
I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned — Patrick Rothfuss
Moi?â€ He put his hand over his heart and did his best wounded-innocent look. â€œYou must be thinking of some other uncouth jackass. Which makes… — Rachel Caine

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