Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have one aim—the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing. — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
As it is, the grotesque distortions of the global market mean that for every dollar the West dispatches to Africa in the… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not,… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle - a mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I believe when I am in the mood that all nature is full of people whom we cannot see, and that some… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the crevices, and the grotesque, and the unsavory. That started out when I was young... I've never quite been… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks - who is David Copperfield,… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
That the Hindus, absorbed in the ideal, lacked in realistic observation is evident from this. Take painting and sculpture. What do you… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Our fiction is not merely in flight from the physical data of the actual world…it is, bewilderingly and embarrassingly, a gothic fiction,… — Leslie Fielder Copy Share Image
Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for children, I keep as… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Where words leave off, gesture begins. Don't we speak of a person being speechless with rage, dancing with impatience, setting his teeth?… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I agree with the thesis, because I think that even though something grotesque or gross has been part of… — Ivan Reitman Copy Share Image
The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may… — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
What interests me in [Lincoln in the Bardo] is a slight perverse balance between the sublime and the grotesque. Like you could… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it histruth, and tried to live his life… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
The history of all Magazines shows plainly that those which have attained celebrity were indebted for it to articles similar in natureto… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that… — Rube Goldberg Copy Share Image
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