An habitation giddy and unsure Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
If one were truly aware of the value of human life, to waste it blithely on distractions and the pursuit of vulgar… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
There was a time when it was considered vulgar and unnecessary to pursue money, but today anyone who doesn't believe in money… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here. — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
We have created not a Brave New World, but a vulgar marketplace, where human attributes come with a price tag. — Linda Chavez Copy Share Image
Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Too much comedy today is vulgar, not clever. I say that as a comedian and as a consumer. — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
Life should be a constant vision of God's presence. Here is our defense against being led away by the gauds and shows… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
So there's nothing more vulgar than the sound of someone saying, God Bless America, someone who doesn't really believe it, but he… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“As with companions so with books. We may choose those which will make us better, more intelligent, more appreciative of the good… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Wherever the appearance of a conventional aristocracy exists in America, it must arise from wealth, as it cannot from birth. An aristocracy… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar; and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I should also mention that the Neue Galerie is piping music into the galleries where "Klee and America" is hanging, a practice… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Political action involves mental vulgarity, not merely because it entails the occurrence and support of those who are mentally vulgar, but because… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
The wretched beings depicted by Millet touch us profoundly because he loved them profoundly. They have nothing in common with vulgar ugliness.… — Jules Breton Copy Share Image
You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Though essaying but a sportive sail, I was driven from my course by a blast re sistless; and ill-provided, young, and bowed… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What Music expresses is eternal, infinite, and ideal; she expresses not the passion, love, desire, of this or that individual in this… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of humor. One kind that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity -- like what… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country.… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
To fall for," "to be fallen for"--I feel in these words something unspeakably vulgar, farcical, and at the same time extraordinarily complacent.… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Lyrics of some songs are vulgar... I feel they are not good for the society. — Kumar Sanu Copy Share Image
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
The leader, mingling with the vulgar host, Is in the common mass of matter lost. — Homer Copy Share Image
