Uncouth Quotes - Page 2

• We know great Nature's pow'r, Mother of things, whose vast unbounded sway From the deep centre all around extends Wide to the flaming barriers of the world. We feel her power; we strive not to repress (Vainly repress'd, or to deformity) Her lawful growth: ours be the task alone To check her rude excrescencies, to prune Her wanton overgrowth, and where she strays In uncouth shapes, to lead her gently back, With prudent hand, to form and better use.

  John Armstrong

  Mother, Nature, Hands

  John Armstrong, “The Oeconomy Of Love”

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• Oh! that look of love!" continued he, between his teeth, as he bolted himself into his own private room. "And that cursed lie; which showed some terrible shame in the background, to be kept from the light in which I thought she lived perpetually! Oh, Margaret, Margaret! Mother, how you have tortured me! Oh! Margaret, could you not have loved me? I am but uncouth and hard, but I would never have led you into any falsehood for me.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Mother, Lying, Light

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1611, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Yeah, I used to dress badly until I was about sixteen. But people just didn't seem to have enough respect for me, you know And I didn't like that, so I decided I'd have to show them they weren't any better than me, you know? They were sort of priding themselves. They would say, 'He beat us at chess, but he's still just an uncouth kid.' So I decided to dress up.

  Bobby Fischer

  Kids, People, Chess

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• Europeans hate the way Americans talk. They think we're loud and uncouth and they don't like our jokes, except for Michael Moore. Plus, they resent the fact that they've had to learn our language because if they didn't we wouldn't buy their stupid metric widgets or visit their overpriced ruins.

  Denis Boyles

  Stupid, Hate, Thinking

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• Conozco el procedimiento. [Los republicanos dicen que Donald Trump no es republicano. Dicen que es un caballo de Troya o que es inaceptable o que es un grosero o lo que sea que digan.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Caballo, Republicano, Trump

  Fuente: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Dondequiera que dirija mi vista,
  Todo es extraño, pero nada nuevo:
  Trabajo interminable todo el tiempo,
  Trabajo interminable para equivocarme:
  Frase que el tiempo ha desechado;
  Palabras groseras en desorden,
  trucadas con gorguera y bonete antiguos,
  Oda, elegía y soneto.

  Samuel Johnson

  Opiniones, Poesía, Frases

  Tobias George Smollett, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith (1810). "Las obras poéticas de los doctores Smollett, Johnson y Goldsmith", p.113

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• Dentro de la concha de la ostra tosca
  puede esconderse la perla más pura,
  Confía en mí, encontrarás un corazón de verdad
  Dentro de ese exterior áspero.

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Heart, Oysters, May

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• If you go to Florence, it has all surface beauty, but like Venice, it's simply a museum of Renaissance times. Los Angeles is raw, uncouth and bizarre, but it's a place of substance. It has more new horizons than any other place.

  Werner Herzog

  Museums, Venice, Florence

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• Lyndon Johnson fue trece de los hombres más interesantes y difíciles que he conocido. Podía ser tan cortés como grosero, tan magnánimo como malicioso, a veces orgulloso y sensible, a veces paranoico y oscuramente incómodo consigo mismo. Freud se lo habría pasado en grande con él.

  Bill Moyers

  Men, Interesting, Fields

  Fuente: progressive.org

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• Digan lo que digan, el fastidioso comportamiento formal de las clases altas es preferible al desaliñado comportamiento despreocupado de la clase media común. En momentos de crisis, los primeros saben cómo actuar, los segundos se convierten en brutos groseros.

  Cesare Pavese

  Clase, Personas, Comportamiento

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• Hay, en efecto, pocos espectáculos más alegres que el de muchos molinos de viento discutiendo juntos en una brisa fresca sobre un país boscoso; su presteza vacilante del movimiento, su negocio agradable, haciendo el pan todo el día con la gesticulación grosera; su aire, gigantically humano, como de una criatura medio viva, pone un espíritu del romance en el paisaje más manso.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Campo, Aire, Viento

  Robert Louis Stevenson, June Skinner Sawyers (2002). "Dreams of elsewhere: the selected travel writings of Robert Louis Stevenson", Neil Wilson Pub Ltd

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• Un cuerpo humano no se parece en nada a los que han nacido para la voracidad; no tiene pico de halcón, ni garra afilada, ni aspereza de dientes, ni fuerza de estómago o calor de digestión que puedan bastar para convertir o alterar una comida tan pesada y carnosa.... No hay nadie que esté dispuesto a comer ni siquiera una cosa sin vida y muerta tal como está; así que la hierven, y la asan, y la alteran con fuego y medicinas, por así decirlo, cambiando y apagando las vísceras sacrificadas con miles de salsas dulces, para que el paladar así engañado pueda admitir tan grosera comida.

  Plutarch

  Dulce, Medicina, Fuego

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• With the broad and powerful swing of the hand which Zola in The Earth gave to his ploughman, L'Auto, journal of ideas and action, is going to fling across France today those reckless and uncouth sowers of energy who are the great professional riders of the world... From Paris to the blue waves of the Mediterranean, from Marseille to Bordeaux, passing along the roseate and dreaming roads sleeping under the sun, across the calm of the fields of the Vendée, following the Loire, which flows on still and silent, our men are going to race madly, unflaggingly.

  Henri Desgrange

  Dream, Powerful, Sleep

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