lack of sophistication Quotes

Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media. What we have now - to quote myself at my most pretentious - is a nimiety of scurrility with a concomitant exiguity of taste.

Haste is always ungraceful.

This [Washington and Congress] is a miserable place, but the elect of all the states are assembled in it, and really such a gang to have the affairs of an empire ... entrusted to them, makes one shudder. Imagination is dead in this country—with neither to be found nor is it understood among them.... There are about five persons who look like gentlemen. All the rest come in the filthiest dresses and are well indeed if they look like farmers—but most seem to be apothecaries and attorneys.

Sleaze is a point by point refutation of elegance.

Branson, Missouri, is Vegas for people with no teeth.

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

Donald Trump is showing the intellectual rigor, and emotional maturity, of a second grader. That's hardly being age-ist. This is a man who, when accused by Hillary Clinton of being a Putin puppet, actually responded: "No puppet! No puppet! YOU'RE the puppet."