Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Color tends to corrupt photography and absolute color corrupts it absolutely. Consider the way color film usually renders blue sky, green foliage,… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
I use profanity because I like profanity, but I'm not vulgar. Big difference. I love profanity because I really think profanity is… — Godfrey Copy Share Image
My mother was always the one with the dark, really filthy sense of humor. She was a vulgar woman. She used to… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
I am of the level with common Astrologers; who, with an old paltry cant, and a few pot-hooks for planets to amuse… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
