A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Passionless is vulgar ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka")” — William S. Wilson Copy Share Image
A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Jewelry and profuse ornaments are unmistakable evidences of vulgarity. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
... Corellian curses being a synergistic blend of vulgarity, obscenity, and outright blasphemy that were the only things really worth saying when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The reproach that superficial people formulate against Manet, that whereas once he painted ugliness, now he paints vulgarity, falls harmlessly to the… — Stephane Mallarme Copy Share Image
The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
It is not unfortunate that today, obscenity is being encourages in the name of modernity; unfortunate is that the young generation is… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much… — Chris Patten Copy Share Image
Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity. — Massimo Vignelli Copy Share Image
If you think one thing is sacred but you cannot stand the other, if you love the Creator but hate the creation,… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While [Domald] Trump chose a running mate, [Mike] Pence, who wrote [a letter to an Indianapolis newspaper] about how women shouldn't work… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
“You could have fucked me ’til your uncut, overexposed on the blogs, ‘too ginormous for my snatch’ pecker fell off. And I’d… — Avery Aster Copy Share Image
The Sage of Toronto... spent several decades marveling at the numerous freedoms created by a "global village" instantly and effortlessly accessible to… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
“And then I remember this morning and I wonder if it really happened or if I dreamed it. It was nice. And… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
European democracy was originally imbued with a sense of Christian responsibility and self-discipline, but these spiritual principles have been gradually losing their… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
This point seems counter-intuitive, given the amount of conspicuous vulgarity, vice, and immorality in America. Indeed some Islamic fundamentalists argue that their… — Dinesh D'Souza 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
We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“First, however, I must deal with the matter of Jesus, the so-called savior, who not long ago taught new doctrines and was… — Celsus 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
“The patriarchal authoritarian sexual order that resulted from the revolutionary processes of latter-day matriarchy (economic independence of the chief's family from the… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
The world in which we live would benefit greatly if men and women everywhere would exercise the pure love of Christ, which… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
The world that seemed so various and new, well, it does contract. One's burning desire to investigate human behavior, and to make,… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
One is born with good taste. It's very hard to acquire. You can acquire the patina of taste. But what Elsie Mendl… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
“They are all very serious people with stern expressions on their faces. They discuss nothing but important matters and like to philosophize… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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