Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar. — Mignon McLaughlin 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
Devotion as an act is vulgar. Devotion as a way of life is wonderful. If you are a great devotee, it is… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and… — Oliver Goldsmith 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
Too much comedy today is vulgar, not clever. I say that as a comedian and as a consumer. — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Everyone experiences bouts of jealousy; but the dignified person conceals it, while the vulgar one acts upon it — Ibn Taymiyyah Copy Share Image
Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
We reduce the deity to vulgar fractions. We place our own little ambitions and label them ?divine messages?. With our short sight… — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
Inasmuch as it is manifest from experience that if the Holy Bible, translated into the vulgar tongue, be indiscriminately allowed to every… — Pope Pius IV Copy Share Image
The consolations of the vulgar are bitter in the royal ear. Let physicians and confectioners and servants in the great houses be… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants… The large and rapid fortunes… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
“Sorry, I didn’t know that you had a vagina, I’ll refrain from using vulgar words for now on. How about it smells… — Katelin LaMontagne Copy Share Image
Many women, particularly young women, have claimed the right to use the most explicit sex terms, including extremely vulgar ones, in public… — Margaret Mead 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
It is when one begins to lose the consciousness of freedom, and when the idea of necessity enters the world at all,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
