Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Stanwyck

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

Cyril Connolly

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.

E. M. Forster

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

Caitlin Thomas

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.

George Bernard Shaw

Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.

Oscar Wilde

No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.

Oscar Wilde

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Oscar Wilde

Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

Bette Davis

I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.

Iggy Pop

'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.

Davy Jones

Did you forget? I'm a heartless wretch!

Amos Bronson Alcott

Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.

Ani Difranco

Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.

Oscar Wilde

How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.

Margaret Fuller

I am 'too fiery'... yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything.

Michael Parenti

Capital requires protection, as do the institutions through which it operates. As capital expands its operations, the state that is associated with its protection must develop its capacity for autocratic control. Thus, the "Free World" increasingly resembles a dreary string of heartless police states.

Beck

It gets a little bit troublesome when you have something that's overcompressed that shouldn't be.

Beck

I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.

C. S. Lewis

It is often little things that are hardest to stand.

Cathy Moriarty

Don't be so hard on yourself. Be a little harder on yourself. Learn from your experiences. Don't dwell on things. Get on with your life.

Cecil Beaton

All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.

Carl Sagan

What's the harm of a little mystification? It sure beats boring statistical analyses.

Berkeley Breathed

The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by.

Bill Budge

Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication.

Bertrand Russell

Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be.