Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral. — Robert L. Millet Copy Share Image
The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar. — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould. — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
I am against vulgar lyrics. No one should feel ashamed while listening to a song. — Jeet Gannguli Copy Share Image
“Passionless is vulgar ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka")” — William S. Wilson Copy Share Image
What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better… — William Hazlitt 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
The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I'm quite into the French way - simple elegance with just a suggestion of sexiness, nothing vulgar. — Michelle Dockery Copy Share Image
It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is… — Alice James Copy Share Image
Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it's followed about and surrounded by the… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
The hedges are spruting like chicks from the eggs when they are newly hatched or as the vulgar says clacked. — Marjorie Fleming Copy Share Image
Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Hot soup at table is very vulgar; it either leads to an unseemly mode of taking it, or keeps people waiting too… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
The art of cartooning is vulgarity. The only reason for cartooning to exist is to be on the edge. If you only… — Ralph Bakshi 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
“Miss Austen’s novels … seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Miss Erstwhile: “It is such a relief, Mr. Nobley, to already know that you find this exercise vulgar and your partner unworthy.… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
What I very much admire about the Versace maison, and what I am still trying to learn to do myself as I… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
I think the reason for vulgarity is because of the freedom that there is now to do certain things, and a lack… — Polly Allen Mellen Copy Share Image
Over the years, the idea seems to have grown up that brightly coloured flowers are vulgar, and that the only flowers to… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
“Fatally, the term 'barbarian' is the password that opens up the archives of the twentieth century. It refers to the despiser of… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Spare me therefore, your good intentions, your inner sensitivities, your unarticulated and unexpressed love. And spare me also these tedious psycho-historians which,… — Willard Gaylin Copy Share Image
It is when one begins to lose the consciousness of freedom, and when the idea of necessity enters the world at all,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But the most common species of love is that which first arises from beauty, and afterwards diffuses itself into kindness and into… — David Hume 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
The vulgar look upon a man, who is reckoned a fine speaker, as a phenomenon, a supernatural being, and endowed with some… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Who reads short stories? one is asked, and I like to think that they are read by men and women in the… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
