It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Truth and fact are old-fashioned and out-of-date, my friends, fit only for the dull and vulgar to live by. Appearance, not reality,… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
The meal was pretentious - a kind of beetroot soup with greasy croutons; pork underdone with loud vulgar cabbage, potato croquettes, tinned… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success,… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
You always feel quite vulnerable when you're naked on a set. You feel quite silly, actually. And with the green screen around… — Eva Green Copy Share Image
Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is a strain in Marx of the cleric, of the vulgar moralist. He paints the capitalist and the bourgeois as incarnations… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that… — Imogen Poots Copy Share Image
Semi-Tough pokes fun in rambling fashion, but it is vulgar in intelligent ways and almost always amusing in its perceptions of befuddled… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
We'll watch 'Britain's Got Talent,' 'X Factor,' 'Come Dine with Me' and 'Masterchef.' But we don't watch 'Big Brother,' which is rubbish.… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion. The spirit of fashion is not the beautiful, but the wilful; not the graceful, but the… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
In turning away from beauty, we turn away from all that is wholesome and true, and deliver ourselves into an exile where… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity' of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic)… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course,… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
I use vulgar language in my writing. Or for people I don't like, but I have never had an outburst of anger… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
That's the rub about 'Community' - for all the high-concept cleverness, it really comes down to vulgar humanism, the dumbest kind of… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I find it vulgar that people are so fascinated by natural disasters, and we allow footage of young people that are looting… — Sasha Grey Copy Share Image
We unavoidably stand in so many unholy places and are subjected to so much that is vulgar, profane, and destructive of the… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
So if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless.… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
Actual plans for how we help the economy, how we help the environment, how we help [deal with] violence in our cities.… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is nothing simple or dull in achieving the transparent page. Vulgar ostentation is twice as easy as discipline. When you realise… — Beatrice Warde Copy Share Image
The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard.… — Roberto Cavalli Copy Share Image
Take cyberspace as an example. We had this wonderful utopian vision of a new home for the mind. What we've reaped isn't… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
I think that pop music in general sometimes like to keep things a bit more hidden, and, you know, you censor and… — Tove Lo Copy Share Image
In vulgar usage, progress has come to mean limitless movement in space and time, accompanied, necessarily, by an equally limitless command of… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Every thread of creation is held in position by still other strands of things living. In an earthly tapestry hung from the… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
We live in a culture where the one who shouts the loudest gets the most attention. It's not in the vulgar, it's… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
Great statesmen seem to direct and rule by a sort of power to put themselves in the place of the nation over… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
![“In turning away from beauty, we turn away from all that is wholesome and true, and deliver ourselves into an exile where the vulgar and artificial dull and deaden the human spirit [] In contrast, the Beautiful offers us an invitation to order, coherence, and unity. When these needs are met, the…” quote by John O'Donohue](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d37/john-o-donohue-1919_beautiful_in-turning-away-from-beauty-we-turn-away_625329.jpg)
![“I use vulgar language in my writing. Or for people I don't like, but I have never had an outburst of anger and I think that's largely [Mahatma] Gandhi's influence. When you lose your temper, you've lost your cause.” quote by Khushwant Singh](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1a1/khushwant-singh-9061_anger_i-use-vulgar-language-in-my-writing-or-f_1757490.jpg)
![“Actual plans for how we help the economy, how we help the environment, how we help [deal with] violence in our cities. These are things that Hillary Clinton has always brought the conversation back to, when he's gone vulgar and he's gone low.” quote by Natalie Portman](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/dd1/natalie-portman-1515_cities_actual-plans-for-how-we-help-the-economy_1390285.jpg)
