Uncouth Quotes

• Por la forma en que crecí, siempre me enseñaron que es de mala educación hablar de dinero, y que eso no es lo que debe inspirarte.

  Justin Timberlake

  Moving, Inspire, Way

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• Too much truth is uncouth.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Truth, Reality, Too Much

  Franklin P. Adams (1944). "Nods and Becks"

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• Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.

  Garet Garrett

  Revolution, Modern, Cases

  Garet Garrett (1955). “The American Story”, p.266, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.

  James Russell Lowell

  Onward And Upward, Progress, Ancient

  La crisis actual" (1845)

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• Las nuevas ocasiones enseñan nuevos deberes.

  James Russell Lowell

  Onward And Upward, Deber, Enseñar

  La crisis actual" (1845)

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• There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.

  Edmund Burke

  Death, Men, America

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.250

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• Los ministros de Cristo deben poseer refinamiento. Deben descartar todos los modales, actitudes y gestos groseros, y deben fomentar en sí mismos la humilde dignidad de porte.

  Ellen G. White

  Actitud, Humilde, Gestos

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• The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Humorous, Hopeless

  V.S. Pritchett (2011). “The Other Side of a Frontier”, p.361, A&C Black

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• Time makes ancient good uncouth.

  James Russell Lowell

  Onward And Upward, Ancient

  La crisis actual" (1845)

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• The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Merit, Common

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). "El fundamento último de la ciencia económica: Un ensayo sobre el método"

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• It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less so. And it's positively uncouth to be proud of something that this Labour government is doing. So, slam me for saying so, but I'm really proud of the NHS.

  Lucy Powell

  Nhs, Government, Political

  "Labour created the NHS and has safeguarded its future" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.

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• How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims nor understand one of its pleasures?

  Hermann Hesse

  Failing, Lone Wolf, Pleasure

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.30, Macmillan

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• Somos muñecos de trapo hechos de muchas edades y pieles, mutantes que han dormido en nidos de madera y han siseado bajo la grosera apariencia de anfibios contoneantes. Hemos interpretado esos papeles durante épocas infinitamente más largas de lo que hemos sido humanos. Nuestra identidad es un sueño. Somos proceso, no realidad.

  Loren Eiseley

  Sueño, Sueño, Realidad

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• La gente de los periódicos, antaño célebres como fuentes de humor socarrón y diversión grosera, han perdido últimamente toda su alegría, y no es de extrañar.

  Russell Baker

  Fun, People, Ribald

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• Podría haberte arrancado totalmente el corazón antes de que supieras lo que estaba pasando". "¿Qué te detuvo?" "Pensé que Montgomery podría haberse cabreado por toda la sangre en las sábanas." "Montgomery nunca estaría algo tan grosero como enojado. Molesto de una manera icily gentil, tal vez.

  Nalini Singh

  Heart, Cutting, Blood

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• You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind....Cain slew his brother. Can might have been killed, and that would have put a termination to that line of human beings. This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin.

  Brigham Young

  Brother, Blessing, Class

  Journal of Discourses, vol. 7 (p. 290), 1863.

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• No language is as depending on arbitrary use and custom can ever be permanently the same, but will always be in a mutable and fluctuating state; and what is deem'd polite and elegant in one age, may be accounted uncouth and barbarous in another.

  Benjamin Martin

  Age, Arbitrary, Use

  Benjamin Martin (1749). “Lingua Britannica Reformata: Or, a New English Dictionary, Under the Following Titles, Viz. I. Universal; ... VIII. Philosophical; ... To which is Prefix'd, an Introduction, Containing a Physico-grammatical Essay on the Propriety and Rationale of the English Tongue, ... By Benj. Martin”, p.482

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• I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Name Of The Wind, Courses, Kvothe

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.50, Hachette UK

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• Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations.

  Alec-Tweedie

  Peas In A Pod, Elements, Civilisation

  Ethel Alec-Tweedie, Mrs Alec-Tweedie (1904). “Sunny Sicily: Its Rustics and Its Ruins”

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• Dig -- the mostly uncouth -- language of grace.

  Geoffrey Hill

  Grace, Language

  Geoffrey Hill (2013). “Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012”, p.415, Oxford University Press

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• To reject wisdom because the person communicates it is uncouth and his manners are inelegant, what is it but to throw away a pine-apple, and assign for a reason the roughness of its coat?

  Thomas Hartwell Horne

  Apples, Coats, Reason

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• Moi?” He put his hand over his heart and did his best wounded-innocent look. “You must be thinking of some other uncouth jackass. Which makes me jealous, by the way.

  Rachel Caine

  Jealous, Heart, Thinking

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• Anti-Americanism is as old as the Republic--a historical constant, which is only remotely related to specific American behavior. So what is new? Andrei Markovits has delivered the best answer yet, ranging across an astounding wealth of material from politics and culture. Uncouth Nation is a rare academic treat. Rigorous and analytical, the book is also a pleasure to read as it penetrates a critical issue of our time.

  Josef Joffe

  Book, Issues, Historical

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• on him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body.

  Jean Genet

  Song, Mouths, Body

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• After her came jolly June, arrayed
  All in green leaves, as he a player were;
  Yet in his time he wrought as well as played,
  That by his plough-irons mote right well appear.
  Upon a crab he rode, that did him bear,
  With crooked crawling steps, an uncouth pace,
  And backward rode, as bargemen wont to fare,
  Bending their force contrary to their face;
  Like that ungracious crew which feigns demurest grace.

  Edmund Spenser

  Spring, Player, June

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