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
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
the essence of vulgarity seemed to lie in the pretence at being or the attempt to be, something that one really was… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
It is disgusting to pick your teeth; what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Journalists are more powerful now than they've ever been, and we all know what power does. Anyone who disses the media is… — Charles McGrath 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
In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more… — Al Gore 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
The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Sir, I have seen your film and it is vulgar! Madame, my film rises below vulgarity. — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
In a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists. — Maya Angelou 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
“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
“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
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
Vulgarity finds its antidote; old crudities become softened with time. Distinctions, both those that are useful and those that are burdensome, flourish… — Robert Burchfield 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
The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Whenever a man is known to seek promotion by intrigue, by temporizing, or by resorting to the haunts of vulgarity and vice… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Minimalism is not a style, it is an attitude, a way of being. It’s a fundamental reaction against noise, visual noise, disorder,… — Claudio Silvestrin 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
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