“Dig -- the mostly uncouth -- language of grace.”
“No language is as depending on arbitrary use and custom can ever be permanently the same, but will always be in a mutable and fluctuating state; and what is deem'd polite and elegant in one age, may be accounted uncouth and barbarous in another.”
“I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned”
“...and said grace in Welsh. It was all rolling, thundering language.”
“The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.”
“The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.”