“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
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
With a woman around, there's a tendency to eliminate vulgarity and profanity and create a more businesslike attitude. — Lee Corso Copy Share Image
Donald Trump did his usual softball interview on "Fox News" where the interviewer agreed with Trump that using that Yiddish vulgarity is… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
There is so much vulgarity in the everyday, that when somebody has the pretension to do something extraordinary for the community, then… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Put your point across respectfully and convincingly. Those who become vulgar, angry or violent usually do not have a valid point to… — Mufti Ismail Menk Copy Share Image
I guess I'm concerned that vulgarity has now officially entered the mainstream of our culture, and I think people have to respectfully… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word… — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
That is why I think, in defiance of Plato, that there is at once error and vulgarity in saying that poetry is… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... The movie is vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't… — Roger Ebert 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
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
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
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
“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
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
Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure. I always seem to be wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity. I do… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things... — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Where do you come from?" "From the planet of a distant sun, called Earth." "What for?" "I was tired of vulgarity.” — David Lindsay 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
“Vulgarity is like a fine wine: it should only be uncorked on a special occasion, and then only shared with the right… — James Rozoff Copy Share Image
It is the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society. Fine society is only a self-protection against… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What is an aristocrat? A woman who is never sullied by vulgarity, although she may be surrounded by it. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
In 1963 ... The Vatican condemned Dr. No as a 'dangerous mixture of violence, vulgarity, sadism and sex.' Ka-ching! — Manohla Dargis Copy Share Image
I love British cursing - the cadence of it, the joy in the sound of the words, and the vulgarity of it. — Christopher Moore 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
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close. — Barbara Stanwyck 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
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
Want to make a good first impression on a guy? Ask questions about him, seem interested, listen, giggle and swallow. — Family Guy Copy Share Image
rummaging in the storehouses of religious or literary history for myth-matter for ideational uses is of the nature of spiritual vulgarity. — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard.… — Roberto Cavalli 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
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
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
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
When I write, I keep the family audience in mind. I ensure there's no vulgarity, as families are coming into the theatres,… — Rohit Shetty Copy Share Image
People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity.… — Kenneth Williams Copy Share Image
