(11 quotes found)
“For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.”
Carl Bernstein
“Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go downhill. Hermits have observed, if for only this reason, a frugal diet. For it is only in company that eating is done justice; food must be divided and distributed if it is to be well received.”
Walter Benjamin
“My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.”
Hannah More
“But all, the world's coarse thumb / And finger failed to plumb, / So passed in making up the main account.”
Robert Browning
“When the coarse cloth she saw, with many a stain, / Soiled by rude hands, who cut and came again.”
George Crabbe
“He calls the knaves, Jacks, this boy! . . . And what coarse hands he has! And what thick boots!”
Charles Dickens
“When grilling, I like really good sirloin steak. I use three peppers: green, white, and black in a coarse grind. I press the pepper into the steak and just grill.”
Dave DeWitt
“I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.”
“The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
