Uncouth Quotes

24 Uncouth quotes by 24 unique 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?” He put his hand over his heart and did his best wounded-innocent look. “You must be thinking of some other uncouth jackass. Which makes… — Rachel Caine
on him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body. — Jean Genet
I could've totally cut out your heart before you knew what was happening." "What stopped you?" "I thought Montgomery might've been pissed off at all… — Nalini Singh
I jabbered too much in class about all the Russian writers whom I admired for being, among other things, uncouth and somewhat humorously melodramatic, such… — Richard Elman
I've always been a drifter; letting the tide take me out. Sometimes it feels like I've completely switched seas, and I forsake my uncouth horror... — Unknown Author

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