Quotes About Coarse-grained

Romantic ideas about the way life is lived are often to be found in persons themselves fairly coarse-grained.

I am distinctly opposed to visibly arrogant and arbitrary extremes of government--but this is simply because I wish the safety of an artistic and intellectual civilisation to be secure, not because I have any sympathy with the coarse-grained herd who would menace the civilisation if not placated by sops.