Famous quotes containing the words coarse and/or ash:
“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 (16941773)
“The last cobwebs
of fog in the
black firtrees are flakes
of white ash in the worlds hearth.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
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