rough quotes

You, for example, clever to a fault, The rough and ready man who write apace, Read somewhat seldomer, think perhaps even less.

- Robert Browning
  Men and Women,'Bishop Blougram's  Apology'.

If they want rough, then I get the phone call.

- Kathy Burke
  In the Observer, 5  Jan.

The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober: not always, but most of the time.

- Clarence Shepard Day
The Crow's Nest,'In His Baby Blue Ship'.

My parents kept me from children who were rough Whothrew wordslikestones and who woretornclothes

- Sir Stephen Harold Spender
  'My Parents Kept Me from ChildrenWhoWere Rough'.

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

-W(illiam) B(utler) Yeats
  'The Second Coming', l.21^2. Collected in Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921).