I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of… — Lauren Bacall 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
It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“...nature is so immoral, vulgar, and downright wicked we can't possibly use nature's behaviors to set rules for ourselves.” — Dan Riskin Copy Share Image
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Of all noxious animals, the most noxious is a tourist. And of all tourists the most vulgar, ill-bred, offensive and loathsome is… — Francis Kilvert Copy Share Image
Cowards shrink from toil and peril, Vulgar souls attempt and fail; Men of mettle, nothing daunted, Persevere till they prevail. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I thought Hillary Clinton was remarkably elegant and intelligent and focusing on the issues even though her opponent was trying to bring… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
In 'Expendables 2,' there was a lot of vulgar dialogue in the screenplay. For this reason, many young people wouldn't be able… — Chuck Norris Copy Share Image
I never wrote for children. I wrote with respect for the audience, which I've maintained all my life. Doesn't mean I couldn't… — Chespirito Copy Share Image
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
I believe I understand anti-Semitism which is a very complex movement. I see it as a Jew, but without hatred or fear.… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
When a woman has the gift of silence she possesses a quality above the vulgar. It is a gift of Heaven seldom… — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
The vulgar and common esteem is seldom happy in hitting right; and I am much mistaken if, amongst the writings of my… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
But the nature of our civilized minds is so detached from the senses, even in the vulgar, by abstractions corresponding to all… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep… — Mark Twain 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
Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the… — Carol Muske-Dukes Copy Share Image
Eloquence, when at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection; but addressing itself entirely to the fancy or the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ah cher ami, how poor in invention men are! They are They always think one commits suicide for a reason. But it's… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. Each… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
While we have a very strong popular culture, the roots of American culture are very shallow, and we put emphasis on how… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
Without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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
Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I personally do not think that I have ever done, in my working life, anything vulgar. I know I've done provocative things. — Polly Allen Mellen Copy Share Image
Everyone experiences bouts of jealousy; but the dignified person conceals it, while the vulgar one acts upon it — Ibn Taymiyyah Copy Share Image
It is only the vulgar who are always fancying themselves insulted. If a man treads on another's toe in good society, do… — Lady Hester Stanhope Copy Share Image
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old… — Vladimir Nabokov 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
Nothing is more horrible than my self in the mirror of hysteria. Nothing is more vulgar than my style in the hands… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
Devotion as an act is vulgar. Devotion as a way of life is wonderful. If you are a great devotee, it is… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image