Famous quotes containing the words coarse, salt and/or company:
“... But a coarse old man am I,
I choose the second-best,
I forget it all awhile
Upon a womans breast.
Day-break and a candle end.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“... the darkness,
Inviting to this house
Air from a field, air from a salt grave ...”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
“I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances. I much prefer the company of ploughboys and tin-peddlers, to the silken and perfumed amity which celebrates its days of encounter by a frivolous display, by rides in a curricle, and dinners at the best taverns.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)