Adequate Quote by Muriel Barbery

To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life...to beauty all is forgiven.

— Muriel Barbery

“With genius, as with beauty -- all, well almost all, is forgiven.”

— Susan Sontag

I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness, good faith, good friends and all the work I can possibly do. I…

— Anna Howard Shaw

What is an aristocrat? A woman who is never sullied by vulgarity, although she may be surrounded by it.

— Muriel Barbery

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

— George Bernard Shaw

Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief.

— Cynthia Ozick

“She represents the beauty of the common people in all its vulgarity and provocativeness.”

— Alaa Al Aswany

There is in the world only the choice between loneliness and vulgarity. All young people should be taught now to put up with loneliness…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.

— Oscar Wilde

Put your point across respectfully and convincingly. Those who become vulgar, angry or violent usually do not have a valid point to make.

— Mufti Ismail Menk

It is the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society. Fine society is only a self-protection against the vulgarities…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness

— Caitlin Thomas

For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from…

— Anonymous

One man's vulgarity is another man's lyric.

— John Marshall Harlan II

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer