Rude

Famous quotes containing the word rude:

    Not all the water in the rough rude sea
    Can wash the balm off from an anointed king;
    The breath of worldly men cannot depose
    The deputy elected by the Lord.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Do you think the porter and the cook have no anecdotes, no experiences, no wonders for you? Every body knows as much as the savant. The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    That loving wretch that swears
    ‘Tis not the bodies marry, but the minds,
    Which he in her angelic finds,
    Would swear as justly that he hears,
    In that day’s rude hoarse minstrelsy, the spheres.
    Hope not for mind in women; at their best
    Sweetness and wit, they’re but Mummy, possessed.
    John Donne (1572–1631)