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Coarse Quotes

When bluntness roughens the edges of culture.

These quotes explore coarseness as both flaw and tool — brutish perceptions of the soul on one end, ratings-driven media debate and shock-therapy culture on the other.

Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.

Quotes by Thomas de Quincey

The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.

Quotes by Nikos Kazantzakis

The culture is just so coarse that you have to take it to that level and people will be like, 'Whoa!' And then you can make people think about stuff. It's kind of like shock therapy.

Quotes by Matt Stone

The media love coarse debate because coarse debate drives ratings and ratings generate profits. Unless the TV producer happens to be William Shakespeare, an argument is more interesting than a soliloquy - and there will never be a shortage of...

Quotes by John Sununu

Always Quotes

If Japanese tea 'stands,' it acquires a coarse bitterness and an unwholesome astringency. Milk and sugar are not used.

Quotes by Isabella Bird

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

George Eliot

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

Quotes by Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process.

Quotes by Edward Thorndike

I have said with as much sincerity as I can muster that if I were thrown into a dungeon with a sentence of one hundred years, with my only company being an illiterate guard who came twice a day with...

Quotes by Edward P. Jones

Being Quotes

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

Quotes by Cyril Connolly

All cold brew coffee is more or less made the same way - by long-steeping coarse coffee grounds in unheated water - but it's not all created equal.

Quotes by Claire Saffitz

For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

Quotes by Carl Bernstein

A molcajete is a stone mortar and pestle from Mexico. They're great for grinding spices and making salsa and guacamole because they give everything a nice coarse and rustic feel. I've never collected anything, but I think I might start...

Quotes by Bobby Flay

In rain water, I observed a small red worm and two other kinds of very minute insects; of those of the larger size, I judged that 30,000 together would not equal a coarse sand.

Quotes by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does 'coarse' mean in this collection of quotes?
It covers a range of meanings, from brutish or crude perceptions of the human soul to blunt, ratings-driven debate in media and culture. The common thread is roughness — of texture, taste, or tone.
Why would someone look up quotes about coarseness?
Coarse quotes are useful for commentary on culture, media, or manners — pieces that push back against politeness or subtlety. They're often shared alongside criticism of shock-value entertainment or blunt public discourse.
Is there a quote connecting coarseness to media and ratings?
Yes — one quote argues the media loves coarse debate because it drives ratings, contrasting a producer chasing conflict with the more interesting depth a real argument like Shakespeare's could offer.
Do any quotes treat coarseness as a deliberate choice?
One does — describing culture as so coarse that shock value becomes a tool, almost like therapy, to make people actually think about something instead of ignoring it.
Is coarseness always described negatively here?
Not entirely. While some quotes link coarseness to crudeness or the mud of the flesh, others frame it as a necessary jolt, similar to how bitterness can sometimes sharpen an argument rather than ruin it.

Some treat coarseness as vulgarity worth resisting, others as the fastest way to make people think. Related reading on being and the brain follows similar ground.