"Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and……" — E. M. Forster
"Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something."
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350 Quotes by E. M. Forster
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Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for…
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It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at…
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Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
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Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling,…
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let…
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As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so…
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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or…
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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
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Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an…
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A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which…
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This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of…
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The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never…
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More Coarseness Quotes
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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,…
— Clement of Alexandria
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What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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,…
— 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…
— Max Nordau
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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…
— Charlotte Bronte
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