#vulgar

There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is. ↗

— Roberto Cavalli

#dress #hard #i #know #line

Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#born #bred #children #counsel #examples

Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But they were all around; it was Manlius who lived in a dream world, and his bubble of civility was becoming smaller and smaller. Caius Valerius, powerful member of a powerful family, had never even heard of Plato. A hundred, even fifty years before, such an absurdity would have been inconceivable. Now it was surprising if such a man did know anything of philosophy, and even if it was explained, he would not wish to understand. ↗

— Iain Pears

#civilization #crudeness #education #knowledge #like-mindedness

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. ↗

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

#crude #extinguish #humor #knowledge #known

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#insipid #rarest #seems #taste #vintage

I didn't like the '80s at all; it was a vulgar moment of fashion. ↗

— Valentino Garavani

#i #like #moment #vulgar

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#egg #learned #roast #vulgar

SHUT UP. Both of you. You're coming with me." To me he said, "Put some pants on." "Fuck you. This is my house. I make the rules. You take your clothes off. John, get the Twister mat. ↗

— David Wong

#funny #vulgar #funny

Shut the front door! ↗

— Jaci Burton

#vulgarity #humor

The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American. ↗

— Stan Brakhage

#capacity #intrinsic #vulgar