“Nobody ever went broke overestimating the vulgarity of the American people,” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Passionless is vulgar ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka")” — William S. Wilson Copy Share Image
The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
“If we can’t arrange our own happiness, it’s a conceit beyond vulgarity to arrange the happiness of those who come after us.” — Tom Stoppard 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 unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to… — Solomon Schechter Copy Share Image
The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants. — Charles Baudelaire 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
“Was my guide a person who would expect what is vulgary called a "tip"? Or was his position so high that even… — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
Bacon, Locke, Descartes, Hume, and all the others knew they were giving rights to vulgarity. But in so doing in addition to… — Allan Bloom 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
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
Vulgarism in language is the distinguishing characteristic of bad company, and a bad education. A man of fashion avoids nothing with more… — Lord Chesterfield 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
I abide by a rule concerning reviews: I will never ask, neither in writing nor in person, that a word be put… — Anton Chekhov 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
A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste-it's hearty, it's healthy,… — Diana Vreeland 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
“I darted like a minnow through passers-by, in a most ungraceful fashion, constantly giving way to generals. officers of the Horse Guards… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky 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
“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
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
I would not have said anything about Mr. Trump, never - I would never have said anything if he didn't call himself… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Today, when death and old age are increasingly concealed behind euphemisms and comforting baby talk, and life is threatened with being smothered… — Martin Esslin Copy Share Image
Just let matters slide. How much better to accept each sweet drop of the honey that was Time, than to stoop to… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
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