We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste, as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities of the… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Men should not labor foolishly like brutes, but the brain and the body should always, or as much as possible, work and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Among the innumerable mortifications which waylay human arrogance on every side may well be reckoned our ignorance of the most common objects… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
What we've undergone in recent decades worldwide has been totally insane, and all of this is a result of capitalism. The workforce… — Rafael Correa Copy Share Image
Hateful, blasphemous, prejudiced, vulgar, rude, or ignorant remarks are the music of a free society, and the relentless patter of idiots is… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an antiquary's study, not; the black battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
I never viewed screen drama as a vulgar form, or a lesser one, and I've never written it left-handed. — William Monahan Copy Share Image
The labouring poor, to use a vulgar expression, seem always to live from hand to mouth. Their present wants employ their whole… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Those who dismiss rappers as vulgar outsiders miss the way that Jay-Z and Kanye embody the American dream: starting from humble beginnings,… — Andrew Hoberek Copy Share Image
It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I certainly do not lament the decadence of knight errantry, nor wish to exchange the protection of the laws for that of… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion. The spirit of fashion is not the beautiful, but the wilful; not the graceful, but the… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
