Famous Quotes & Sayings

Caitlin Thomas

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

Barbara Stanwyck

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

E. M. Forster

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

Cyril Connolly

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.

Mark Twain

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

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.

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.

Alan King

We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator... Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or 'stage' Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.

Charles Dickens

My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.

Charles Sturt

In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.

David Harris

There are a lot of criminals in this city, ... We were the first on the water, we were the first to rescue people.

Charles Grassley

The real crime here is the Clinton-Gore record on drugs. He should explain why, during the Clinton-Gore administration, the number of teenagers using drugs nearly doubled.

Mohammed Hussain

We used to have more officers there and crime was really downnow you see no one.

Cesare Beccaria

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

Jennifer Martin

This was not a drug deal. That defendant wanted money. And this was a crime of opportunity.

Eion Bailey

I'm very interested in soldier recovery projects and in Bradley Manning's story, the army intelligence officer who's being held as a detainee and is going to trial for crimes of treason.

Caitlin Thomas

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

Diane Kruger

Above all, I dislike vulgarity.

Mark Badgley

So it's just not about, you know, vulgar nudity,

Barbara Stanwyck

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

Arthur Miller

... vulgarity has no nation.

E. M. Forster

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

Cyril Connolly

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.

Mark Twain

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

Oscar Wilde

No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.