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Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business. -- Garet Garrett
Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder. -- Russell Baker
The way I grew up, I was always taught that it's uncouth to talk about money, and that's not what should inspire you. -- Justin Timberlake
The ministers of Christ should possess refinement. All uncouth manners, attitudes and gestures should be discarded, and they should encourage in themselves humble dignity of bearing. -- Ellen G. White
Too much truth is uncouth. -- Franklin P. Adams
Time makes ancient good uncouth. -- James Russell Lowell
Dig -- the mostly uncouth -- language of grace. -- Geoffrey Hill
The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life. -- V. S. Pritchett
I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned -- Patrick Rothfuss
on him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body. -- Jean Genet
The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness. -- Ludwig von Mises
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
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
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
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
I could've totally cut out your heart before you knew what was happening." "What stopped you?" "I thought Montgomery might've been pissed off at all the blood on the sheets." "Montgomery would never be something as uncouth as pissed off. Annoyed in an icily genteel manner, perhaps. -- Nalini Singh
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
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
We are rag dolls made out of many ages and skins, changelings who have slept in wood nests, and hissed in the uncouth guise of waddling amphibians. We have played such roles for infinitely longer ages than we have been human. Our identity is a dream. We are process, not reality. -- Loren Eiseley
Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is strange, yet nothing new: Endless labor all along, Endless labor to be wrong: Phrase that Time has flung away; Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet. -- Samuel Johnson
Too much truth is uncouth. -- Franklin P. Adams
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
I jabbered too much in class about all the Russian writers whom I admired for being, among other things, uncouth and somewhat humorously melodramatic, such as Gogol and Dostoyevsky, just as it was in my own household when I was growing up. -- Richard Elman
The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life." -- V. S. Pritchett
Within the oyster's shell uncouth The purest pearl may hide, Trust me you'll find a heart of truth Within that rough outside. -- Frances Sargent Osgood
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
I know the drill. [Republicans] say Donald Trump is not a Republican. They say he's a Trojan horse or he's unacceptable or he's uncouth or whatever they say. -- Rush Limbaugh
I know the drill. [Republicans] say Donald Trump is not a Republican. They say he's a Trojan horse or he's unacceptable or he's uncouth or whatever they say. -- Rush Limbaugh
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
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

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