“the essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.” — William Manchester Copy Share Image
The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Norbit operates on the principle that vulgarity is automatically funny. Crassness doesn't need a joke attached because it is (in and of… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
It is not unfortunate that today, obscenity is being encourages in the name of modernity; unfortunate is that the young generation is… — Mak_786 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
“She represents the beauty of the common people in all its vulgarity and provocativeness.” — Alaa Al Aswany Copy Share Image
Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is… — Alice James 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
The reproach that superficial people formulate against Manet, that whereas once he painted ugliness, now he paints vulgarity, falls harmlessly to the… — Stephane Mallarme Copy Share Image
Keats, it must be remembered, was a sensualist. His poems ... reveal him as a man not altogether free from the vulgarities… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
... Corellian curses being a synergistic blend of vulgarity, obscenity, and outright blasphemy that were the only things really worth saying when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The art of cartooning is vulgarity. The only reason for cartooning to exist is to be on the edge. If you only… — Ralph Bakshi Copy Share Image
The Miss America contest isthe most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a… — Gerald Early Copy Share Image
I think American is very democratic in allowing different hues of language and parts of speech to commingle. William Logan once wrote… — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
A man of fashion never has recourse to proverbs, and vulgar aphorisms; uses neither favourite words nor hard words, but takes great… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Fatally, the term 'barbarian' is the password that opens up the archives of the twentieth century. It refers to the despiser of… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
In San Francisco, vulgarity, "bad taste," ostentation are regarded as a kind of alien blight, an invasion or encroachment from outside. In… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
“First, however, I must deal with the matter of Jesus, the so-called savior, who not long ago taught new doctrines and was… — Celsus Copy Share Image
In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“I believe...that to be very poor and very beautiful is most probably a moral failure more than an artistic success. Shakespeare would… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I feel with some passion that what we truly are is private, and almost infinitely complex, and ambiguous, and both external and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
One is born with good taste. It's very hard to acquire. You can acquire the patina of taste. But what Elsie Mendl… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
Egotism exists everywhere, but it has a different flavor in England, where the tabloid culture goes much deeper. It's just the indulgence… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
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