I think American is very democratic in allowing different hues of language and parts of speech to commingle. William Logan once wrote… — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains, ask yourself the question: Not what style, but in… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
As I swim through the summer tide of vulgarity, I find that's what I'm looking for: Movies that at least feel affection… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Keats, it must be remembered, was a sensualist. His poems ... reveal him as a man not altogether free from the vulgarities… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without… — Rudolf Bing Copy Share Image
Norbit operates on the principle that vulgarity is automatically funny. Crassness doesn't need a joke attached because it is (in and of… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
I hate vulgarity. I hate vulgarity even though it attracts me - and it attracts me very much. I love all that… — Riccardo Tisci 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
Not for Moorcock the painful, infrequent excretion of dry little novels like so many rabbit pellets; his is the grand, messy fluxitself,… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
The way Trump talks about Obama: presidents don't do that! What we're seeing now is a whole new level of vulgarity. I'm… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
A well-cut dress is my personal style. I definitely like it classic; less is more. The thing I despise most is vulgarity. — Diane Kruger Copy Share Image
In truth, the legitimate contention is, not of one age or school of literary art against another, but of all successive schools… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
Despite the vision and farseeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists have felt the peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting,… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The best everyday example of relativity, the finest symptom of human intelligence, is humor. (...) Design without humor is not human. The… — Philippe Starck Copy Share Image
Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
A gift--its kind, its value and appearance; the silence or the pomp that attends it; the style in which it reaches you--may… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
