Coarse Salt Company

Famous quotes containing the words coarse, salt and/or company:

    If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?
    Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 5:13.

    From the Sermon on the Mount.

    But in the reception of metaphysical formula, all depends, as regards their actual and ulterior result, on the pre-existent qualities of that soil of human nature into which they fall—the company they find already present there, on their admission into the house of thought.
    Walter Pater (1839–1894)