Coarseness Quotes

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.

The Nation’s most conspicuous vulgarian

Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse.

Jesting and levity accustom a man to lewdness.

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

Good taste is death; vulgarity is life.

A premium is sometimes put on impropriety of conduct on the women’s part by the foreman. That is, a woman who will submit or respond to his course jokes and language and evil behaviour receives more work than the woman who feels and shows herself insulted by such conduct, and wishes to preserve her self-respect. The pittance earned by some of these women is earned at the expense of more than only hard toil. Even when this coarseness is confined to language only, it causes deep suffering to some of the women. They feel, they know, that because they are women and therefore regarded as helpless and inferior, they are spoken to as men are not spoken to, and the sting enters their souls.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.

Evil is tolerable if purged of coarseness.

Am I a little rough around the edges? Do I say things that people don't like sometimes? Do I swear a lot? Yes, yes, yes. Life's hard, man.

Garbage. It's a natural quality of huskiness in the midrange of my voice that I call 'garbage.' It's not a clear-toned announcer's voice. It's more like the voice of the guy next door.

The entertainment world, television, movies, social media, YouTube stuff, we're so bombarded with so much imagery and such a great sense of inhumanity, and there is a coarseness, a coarsening of interaction.

Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.

... vulgarity has no nation.

The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.

Sleaze is a point by point refutation of elegance.

Ugliness without tact is horrible.

I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude.

Republicans and Democrats spend so much time fighting and then they're all aghast, you know, and so it's just not the way we ought to be. The coarseness is not acceptable.

I like the copious, shapeless, warm, not so very clever, but extremely easy and rather coarse aspect of things; the talk of men in clubs and public-houses; of miners half naked in drawers the forthright, perfectly unassuming, and without end in view except dinner, love, money and getting along tolerably; that which is without great hopes, ideals, or anything of that kind; what is unassuming except to make a tolerably, good job of it. I like all that.

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar.