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 downhil...l. 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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has ...bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My father is one of the few men I know who say they do not like Shakespeare. He says "Shakespeare is so very coarse." I could forg...ive my father for not liking Shakespeare if it was only because Shakespeare wrote poetry, but this is not the reason. He says he likes Tennyson and this gravely aggravates his offence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Beautiful women, whose beauty meant more than it said ... was their brilliancy always fed by something coarse and concealed? Was t...hat their secret?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporeal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or a...re present to witness it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as ...much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In private life he was good-natured, chearful, social; inelegant in his manners, loose in his morals. He had a coarse, strong wit,... which he was too free of for a man in his station, as it is always inconsistent with dignity. He was very able as a minister, but without a certain elevation of mind necessary for great good, or great mischief.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good bre...eding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities ... will always be the favourite beverage o...f the intellectual.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »