Uncouth Quotations

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

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.

Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners.

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

Through the palpable obscure find out / His uncouth way.

Time makes ancient good uncouth.

Uncouth tongues, horrible shriekings of despair, Shrill and faint voices, cries of pain and rage, And, with it all, smiting of hands, were there, Making a tumult, nothing could assuage, To swirl in the air that knows not day or night, Like sand withi