It is disgusting to pick your teeth; what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“How true is the saying that the very highest in rank are always the most simple and kindly. It is from you… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
As to the pure all things are pure, so the common mind sees far more vulgarity in others than the mind developed… — George MacDonald 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
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
In my own work, humor is necessary, for the reasons stated above, but also because forbidding your characters silliness, absurdity, irony, and… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
I think cinema is better today that you can be more daring with what you do. If you do it well. With… — Ben Gazzara Copy Share Image
Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential; it… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“I've never been given to casual use of vulgar language--unwarranted profanity implies mental laziness--but there's no other way to say this: a… — James Carlos Blake Copy Share Image
From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of… — Oscar Wilde 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
In the first manifesto that we launched on the 8th of March, 1910, from the stage of the Chiarella Theater in Turin,1… — Umberto Boccioni 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
To anyone who has followed the practice of using profanity or vulgarity and would like to correct the habit, could I offer… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
“I believe...that to be very poor and very beautiful is most probably a moral failure more than an artistic success. Shakespeare would… — Raymond Chandler 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
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
Egotism exists everywhere, but it has a different flavor in England, where the tabloid culture goes much deeper. It's just the indulgence… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I feel with some passion that what we truly are is private, and almost infinitely complex, and ambiguous, and both external and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
In San Francisco, vulgarity, "bad taste," ostentation are regarded as a kind of alien blight, an invasion or encroachment from outside. In… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
