Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Political poetry is more profoundly emotional than any other-at least as much as love poetry-and cannot be forced because then it becomes… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
With cold eyes and indifferent mind the spectators regard the work. Connoissers admire the "skill" (as one admires a tightrope walker), enjoy… — Wassily Kandinsky 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
Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Conservatism, being an upper-class characteristic, is decorous; and conversely, innovation, being a lower-class phenomenon, is vulgar. ...Innovation is bad form. — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Spare me therefore, your good intentions, your inner sensitivities, your unarticulated and unexpressed love. And spare me also these tedious psycho-historians which,… — Willard Gaylin Copy Share Image
So there's nothing more vulgar than the sound of someone saying, God Bless America, someone who doesn't really believe it, but he… — Christopher Hitchens 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
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
The leader, mingling with the vulgar host, Is in the common mass of matter lost. — Homer Copy Share Image
It is not just the vulgar, premature bawdiness of pro-war triumphalists which I find revolting. It is that they accuse anti-war people… — Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Copy Share Image
Vulgar prejudices are those which arise out of accident, ignorance, or authority; natural prejudices are those which arise out of the constitution… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The vulgar charge that the tendency of democracies is to leveling, meaning to drag all down to the level of the lowest,… — James F. Cooper 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
From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
They [the Templars] had read Avicenna, and they were not ignorant, like the Europeans. How could you live alongside a tolerant, mystical,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Everything has gotten vulgar and out of line for children to watch. It's more of a swearing match. — Bubba Smith Copy Share Image
The loveliest tune imaginable becomes vulgar and insupportable as soon as the public begins to hum it and the hurdy-gurdies make it… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
The idea was put to me, and my initial reaction was of slight sort of - I was slightly appalled, really, because… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould. — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
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