Lack of Refinement Quotes

But the people are ungrammatical, untidy, and their sins gaunt and ill-bred.

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

Haste is always ungraceful.

I'm pretty lowbrow. It's a failing.

It seems there's just no room left for elegance in this paper-plate, blue-jean world. And I, for one, think it's a shame.

Ugliness without tact is horrible.

Redneck is: the glorious absence of sophistication

Sleaze is a point by point refutation of elegance.

She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts.

McLaggen makes Grawp look like a gentleman.

The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of taste, to flatter their absurd vanity, to tell them what they have been told before, to show them what they ought to be tired of seeing, to amuse them when they feel heavy after eating too much, and to distract their thoughts when they are wearied of their own stupidity.

Philistine - a word which I understand properly to denote indifference to the higher intellectual interests. The word may also be defined, however, as the name applied by prigs to the rest of their species.