The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages. [Lat., Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
There are tonalities which are noble and others which are vulgar, harmonies which are calm or consoling, and others which are exciting… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
No one is shallow and vulgar forever; sooner or later the whole species likes to be profound. — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child,… — Slavoj Zizek Copy Share Image
I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I absolutely love television, and I don't mean to be vulgar, but as I keep having to explain to people from the… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
The Italian landscape has always harmonized the vulgar and the Vitruvian: the contorni around the duomo, the portiere'S laundry across the padrone's… — Robert Venturi Copy Share Image
The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I do not doubt but the majest and beauty of the world are latent in any iota of the world; I do… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine Being, as… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There is a vulgar persuasion, that the ignorance of women, by favoring their subordination, ensures their utility. 'Tis the same argument employed… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal, but if you think about him carefully, you will find that… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
With cold eyes and indifferent mind the spectators regard the work. Connoissers admire the "skill" (as one admires a tightrope walker), enjoy… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Invention is an Heroic thing, and plac'd above the reach of a low, and vulgar Genius. It requires an active, a bold,… — Thomas Sprat Copy Share Image
The culture of the United States has flooded the world. It's the inevitable result of a powerful culture, art. We've got an… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I don't feel any vulgar gratitude to you[for helping me]. I almost feel as if You ought to be grateful to ME,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong,… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
One's worst enormities remain within, and it is only one's vulgar commonplaces of error and folly that turn into murders and suicides,… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If there is one notion I hate more than another, it is that of marriage - I mean marriage in the vulgar,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
People call things 'vulgar' when they are new to them. When they have become old, they become 'good taste.' — Mary Quant Copy Share Image
The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease, and the manner of a gentleman has ease without freedom. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
A man might actually brush off vulgar tweets that come to him. Women are likely to be affected by it. — Chinmayi Copy Share Image
I use profanity because I like profanity, but I'm not vulgar. Big difference. I love profanity because I really think profanity is… — Godfrey Copy Share Image
“People have sex, even the religious ones. Yet, when sex is transferred into words, suddenly it's dirty, vulgar, immoral, trashy. Funny huh?” — Hector Himeros Copy Share Image
There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
For goodness sakes, beware of curls… It is a great art to do them so that the girls not only look modern… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation. — Jenny Eclair Copy Share Image
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