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vulgarity-is heartless littles
A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness Caitlin Thomas
vulgarity-is tragedy comedy
There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close. Barbara Stanwyck
vulgarity-is revealing-something literature
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. E. M. Forster
vulgarity-is salad garlic
Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life. Cyril Connolly
vulgarity-is people refined
There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined. Mark Twain
vulgarity-is crime vulgar
No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime. Oscar Wilde
vulgarity-is two facts
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
vulgarity-is people ideal-husband
Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.
vulgarity-is inability pieces
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. Friedrich Nietzsche
literature privilege reason
Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal. Carlos Fuentes
literature civility
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. Charles Dickens
literature potatoes poultry
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
literature made should
I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.
literature stealing plagiarism
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. Charles Caleb Colton
literature prudence
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
literature fool religious-bigotry
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
literature speech giants
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
literature action conflict
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.