#vulgar

Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#children #i #imbeciles #met #some

Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as "a wise Latina" trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#bad #days #embarrassment #feminism #herself

America does not want vulgarity and sexual exploitation to be our values and we do not want the world to think those are our standards. We want to be a better nation and a better people, with better standards. ↗

— Charles W. Pickering

#better #does #exploitation #nation #our

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#intellect #minus #vulgarity #will

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him. ↗

— John Ruskin

#higher #him #man #more #stands

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine. ↗

— Walter Scott

#easier #examine #finds #historical #incredulity

On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people. ↗

— Hu Shih

#announced #begin #classical #experiments #friends

I am oblivious to the obvious – it is such a vulgar way to characterize things. I have too much subtlety to notice anything beneath my dignity. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #obliviousness #obviousness #vulgarity

I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#game #luxury #modesty #vulgarity #love

And then I remember this morning and I wonder if it really happened or if I dreamed it. It was nice. And weird. And tender. I'm not used to tender. It's a fossil, that word. Conditions changed and it died out. Like the woolly mammoth. It just couldn't live in the same world as dick box. Ho dog. Or wiener cousins. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#romance #tenderness #vulgarity #young-adult #young-love