Bible Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse.

— Egerton Brydges

Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not…

— Mary MacLane

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps…

— Ernest Hemingway

This is my only and permanent complaint, that vulgar people, empty of the Spirit of God, want to judge solely by their human thinking…

— Meister Eckhart

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.

— Hugh Blair

“A literature that cannot be vulgarized is no literature at all and will perish.”

— Frank Norris

I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.

— Nicholas Sparks

If men were but to read the New Testament with the same tone and emphasis, with which they do other books, and were to…

— Lysander Spooner

Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.

— Judy Blume

The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine Being, as the horrid…

— Thomas Paine

“Most modern literary criticism is literary and nothing else—that is, it concentrates on an author's style and thinks it rather vulgar to notice his…

— George Orwell

Inasmuch as it is manifest from experience that if the Holy Bible, translated into the vulgar tongue, be indiscriminately allowed to every one, the…

— Pope Pius IV