Hot soup at table is very vulgar; it either leads to an unseemly mode of taking it, or keeps people waiting too… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The first interviews I gave were entirely unpleasant. You have people trying to trip you up with impolite questions that have nothing… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Shakespeare had no tutors but nature and genius. He caught his faults from the bad taste of his contemporaries. In an age… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
She dealt her pretty words like Blades -- How glittering they shone -- And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
And finally - he was neither able nor willing to prevent it - the self-loathing dammed up inside him spilled over and… — Patrick Süskind 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
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
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Such a superiority do the pursuits of literature possess above every other occupation, that even he who attains but a mediocrity in… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It is quite beneath the dignity of a person holding a Bachelor of Arts degree to engage in such a vulgar occupation… — Fukuzawa Yukichi Copy Share Image
There are tonalities which are noble and others which are vulgar, harmonies which are calm or consoling, and others which are exciting… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
The Indian is one of Nature's gentlemen--he never says or does a rude or vulgar thing. The vicious, uneducated barbarians, who form… — Susanna Moodie Copy Share Image
The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
When you know you are of worth, you don't have to raise your voice, you don't have to become rude, you don't… — Maya Angelou 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
If a superior woman marry a vulgar or inferior man, he makes her miserable, but seldom governs her mind or vulgarizes her… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Great statesmen seem to direct and rule by a sort of power to put themselves in the place of the nation over… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology, because among political parties, as elsewhere, the vulgar make the language, and… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The conduct of a losing party never appears right: at least it never can possess the only infallible criterion of wisdom to… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
