The near explains the far. The drop is a small ocean. A man is related to all nature. This perception of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People who attack biography choose as their models vulgar and offensive biography. You could equally attack novels or poems by choosing bad… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Authors of so-called 'literary' fiction insist that action, like plot, is vulgar and unworthy of a true artist. Don't pay any attention… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material… — David Shi Copy Share Image
My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I always found misogyny vulgar and stupid, and I found almost all the women I have known to be my betters. However,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
just as violence is the last refuge of the inarticulate, so it is also the first resort of the incompetent, the easy… — Judith Crist Copy Share Image
Openness, as currently conceived, is a way of making surrender to whatever is most powerful, or worship of vulgar success, look principled. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I don't feel any vulgar gratitude to you[for helping me]. I almost feel as if You ought to be grateful to ME,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The joyous fulfillment of your sex : the sacred duties of beloved wife, and helpmeet, and mother. In opposition to the vulgar… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Rather be frumpy than vulgar! Much. Frumps are often celebrities in disguise -- but a person of vulgar appearance is vulgar all… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Reverence is an ennobling sentiment; it is felt to be degrading only by the vulgar mind, which would escape the sense of… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I would still have old ladies come up to me after the show and pat me on the cheek after I had… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image