There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar. — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
One of the first principles of decorative art is that in all manufactures ornament must hold a place subordinate to that of… — George Mason Copy Share Image
I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had… — Egerton Brydges Copy Share Image
The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You could be as vulgar as you want, as long as three tiny spots were covered. — Bo Derek Copy Share Image
You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child,… — Slavoj Zizek Copy Share Image
Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
“You know how some people get sun-kissed, well i got sun bitch slapped” — Ryan Oliveira Copy Share Image
How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Those who are addicted to the phrase "to use a vulgarism" expect to achieve the feat of being at once vulgar and… — Henry Watson Fowler Copy Share Image
Truth and fact are old-fashioned and out-of-date, my friends, fit only for the dull and vulgar to live by. Appearance, not reality,… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
No one is shallow and vulgar forever; sooner or later the whole species likes to be profound. — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
Go on, fair Science; soon to thee Shall Nature yield her idle boast; Her vulgar lingers formed a tree, But thou hast… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Every political sect has its esoteric and its exoteric school--its abstract doctrines for the initiated; its visible symbols, its imposing forms, its… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I thought Hillary Clinton was remarkably elegant and intelligent and focusing on the issues even though her opponent was trying to bring… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
While we have a very strong popular culture, the roots of American culture are very shallow, and we put emphasis on how… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image