I have always refused to do something that has offended me. I have been offered potential roles that are totally vulgar. — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste, as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities of the… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can't be moral, at least we can avoid being… — Langdon Elwyn Mitchell Copy Share Image
It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“She knew she was acting like the most vulgar of women, the kind that is out to cause pain and knows how.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
They said that Etta James is still vulgar. I said, Oh, how dare them say I'm still vulgar. I'm vulgar because I… — Etta James Copy Share Image
There is no tyranny so hateful as a vulgar and anonymous tyranny. It is all-permeating, all-thwarting; it blasts every budding novelty and… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
I always found misogyny vulgar and stupid, and I found almost all the women I have known to be my betters. However,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is quite a common and vulgar thing among humans to understand, foresee, know and predict the troubles of others. But oh… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
We counsel you, young men, not to pollute your minds with such degrading matter, for the mind through which this filth passes… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
While we have a very strong popular culture, the roots of American culture are very shallow, and we put emphasis on how… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
Ah cher ami, how poor in invention men are! They are They always think one commits suicide for a reason. But it's… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. Each… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I don't feel any vulgar gratitude to you[for helping me]. I almost feel as if You ought to be grateful to ME,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The culture of the United States has flooded the world. It's the inevitable result of a powerful culture, art. We've got an… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal, but if you think about him carefully, you will find that… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
With cold eyes and indifferent mind the spectators regard the work. Connoissers admire the "skill" (as one admires a tightrope walker), enjoy… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
I know it sounds vulgar but that's the way she like it. Got the world's biggest shh, don't matter, just don't bite… — Yung Joc Copy Share Image
We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication . — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The workforce in Latin America was treated as a vulgar instrument for capital accumulation. — Rafael Correa Copy Share Image
The loveliest tune imaginable becomes vulgar and insupportable as soon as the public begins to hum it and the hurdy-gurdies make it… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts. — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
The only good thing I've ever noticed about money, the only positive aspect of an otherwise pretty vulgar commodity, is that you… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
My friends know that I have a silly sense of humour and I can be a little vulgar at times - but… — Carmen Electra Copy Share Image
A man is crazy who writes a secret in any other way than one which will conceal it from the vulgar. — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
I'm loud and I'm vulgar, and I wear the pants in the house because somebody's got to, but I am not a… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
MUMMY, n. - an ancient Egyptian handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image