1.
It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.
Anton Chekhov
2.
I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God is such an obvious and crass solution; a solution which is a sheer indelicacy to us thinkers - at bottom He is really nothing but a coarse commandment against us: ye shall not think!
Friedrich Nietzsche
3.
A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one.
Friedrich Nietzsche
4.
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
Aristophanes
5.
The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture.
Henry Adams
6.
Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar.
Mignon McLaughlin
7.
It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something for others-and it is vile not to endeavor to do it.
Edward Dahlberg
8.
I shall start at the beginning. Though of coarse, the beginning is never where you think it is.
Diane Setterfield
9.
Subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.
George Eliot