Famous quotes containing the words coarse, salt and/or company:
“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 [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“All the sea-gods are dead.
You, Venus, come home
To your salt maidenhead....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)