...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
I'm loud and I'm vulgar, and I wear the pants in the house because somebody's got to, but I am not a… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
A man is crazy who writes a secret in any other way than one which will conceal it from the vulgar. — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
There are many, many benefits to being known for whatever it is you do. To deny that would be sort of asinine… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
The polite of every country seem to have but one character. A gentleman of Sweden differs but little, except in trifles, from… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
When you know you are of worth, you don't have to raise your voice, you don't have to become rude, you don't… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Inasmuch as it is manifest from experience that if the Holy Bible, translated into the vulgar tongue, be indiscriminately allowed to every… — Pope Pius IV Copy Share Image
I was like you once, long time ago. I believed in the dignity of man. Decency. Humanity. But I was lucky. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Sentence has no end. Sometimes I think it had no beginning. Now I salute its authors, which means all of us.… — Douglas Davis Copy Share Image
All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It is wrong to wear diamonds before luncheon, except on one’s marriage rings. Before, after, and during breakfast, luncheon and dinner, it… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
You can write anything you want to,--a six-act blank verse, symbolic tragedy or a vulgar short, short story. Just so that you… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
It was just the sort of yatch you'd expect a rock promoter to have. Mirrored ceilings, marble, Jacuzzis and leopard-skin everything, it… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
If a superior woman marry a vulgar or inferior man, he makes her miserable, but seldom governs her mind or vulgarizes her… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
When you have God come amongst you to support and sustain you, why grovel through crude vulgar entities? Avoid places where they… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour,… — Michel de Montaigne 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
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
The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... The movie is vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
They [the Templars] had read Avicenna, and they were not ignorant, like the Europeans. How could you live alongside a tolerant, mystical,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Art is a window to The Infinite, and opening to the goddess, a portal through which you and I, with the help… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
I don't read all the junk. I joke if I did, I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning. But, Sometimes… — Gretchen Carlson Copy Share Image
Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Moderate sorrow Fits vulgar love, and for a vulgar man: But I have lov'd with such transcendent passion, I soar'd, at first,… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
America's critics can be heard everywhere. It is too much in love with money - worshipping the god of the marketplace, the… — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody… — Willa Cather 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
Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit;… — Thomas Paine 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
Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“SHUT UP. Both of you. You're coming with me." To me he said, "Put some pants on." "Fuck you. This is my… — David Wong Copy Share Image
Shakespeare had no tutors but nature and genius. He caught his faults from the bad taste of his contemporaries. In an age… — Horace Walpole 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
People are getting attention for doing nothing, for behaving poorly, for abusing themselves in public and being abused, exploiting themselves. I find… — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
Woe to the man who is always busy - hurried in a turmoil of engagements, from occupation to occupation, and with no… — William Godwin 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
![“They [the Templars] had read Avicenna, and they were not ignorant, like the Europeans. How could you live alongside a tolerant, mystical, libertine culture for two centuries without succumbing to its allure, particularly when you compared it to Western culture, which was crude, vulgar, barbaric…” quote by Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/080/umberto-eco-313_allure_they-the-templars-had-read-avicenna-and_1993593.jpg)
