He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But the most common species of love is that which first arises from beauty, and afterwards diffuses itself into kindness and into… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Dialectical thought is related to vulgar thinking in the same way that a motion picture is related to a still photograph. The… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
But the nature of our civilized minds is so detached from the senses, even in the vulgar, by abstractions corresponding to all… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
A careless and blasphemous use of the name of the Divine Being is not only sinful, but it is also prima facie… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that we were any way to perpetuate the world… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
The camel carries on his dreary circular task with his usual slow and pompous step and head poised superciliously, as if it… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work… — Moliere Copy Share Image
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease, and the manner of a gentleman has ease without freedom. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It's the ultimate for me not to see how it's made. I find it vulgar when you can distinguish how something is… — Tomas Maier Copy Share Image
Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Who reads short stories? one is asked, and I like to think that they are read by men and women in the… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
When I was a boy in the late 1950s, the public library refused to stock books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. They were… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
