When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar. — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould. — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
I am against vulgar lyrics. No one should feel ashamed while listening to a song. — Jeet Gannguli Copy Share Image
“Passionless is vulgar ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka")” — William S. Wilson Copy Share Image
I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit. — Lucien Bouchard Copy Share Image
Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral. — Robert L. Millet Copy Share Image
It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong,… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Too much comedy today is vulgar, not clever. I say that as a comedian and as a consumer. — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
Life should be a constant vision of God's presence. Here is our defense against being led away by the gauds and shows… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
I hate vulgarity. I hate vulgarity even though it attracts me - and it attracts me very much. I love all that… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
It is wrong to wear diamonds before luncheon, except on one’s marriage rings. Before, after, and during breakfast, luncheon and dinner, it… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
I was like you once, long time ago. I believed in the dignity of man. Decency. Humanity. But I was lucky. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Sentence has no end. Sometimes I think it had no beginning. Now I salute its authors, which means all of us.… — Douglas Davis Copy Share Image
All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I thought Hillary Clinton was remarkably elegant and intelligent and focusing on the issues even though her opponent was trying to bring… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
The wretched beings depicted by Millet touch us profoundly because he loved them profoundly. They have nothing in common with vulgar ugliness.… — Jules Breton Copy Share Image
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
The vulgar look upon a man, who is reckoned a fine speaker, as a phenomenon, a supernatural being, and endowed with some… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material… — David Shi Copy Share Image
“Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he… — Plato Copy Share Image
The joyous fulfillment of your sex : the sacred duties of beloved wife, and helpmeet, and mother. In opposition to the vulgar… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
He (Intellectuals) claims that label to compensate for his own inadequacies. It's as old as that saying: tell me what you boast… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's the ultimate for me not to see how it's made. I find it vulgar when you can distinguish how something is… — Tomas Maier Copy Share Image
The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
My standup's very gross and vulgar and brassy. There's a lot of screaming. — Sarah Sherman Copy Share Image
I think the whole aspect of social networking is vulgar and repulsive in a lot of ways. — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
