Vulgar English Sayings

#1. Miss Austen's novels ... seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. The one problem in the mind of the writer ... is marriageableness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. boor (which originally just meant "farmer," as in the German Bauer and Dutch boer); villain (from the French vilein, a serf or villager); churlish (from English churl, a commoner); vulgar (common, as in the term vulgate); and ignoble, not an aristocrat.

Steven Pinker

#3. The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. The only thing better than a cowboy in Wranglers is a cowboy out of Wranglers.

Scarlett Avery

#5. Nobody wants to see teams out of contention showcased in December and January. I'm sure this is something that will be discussed again this off-season.

Al Michaels

#6. This noble word [women], spirit-stirring as it passes over English ears, is in America banished, and 'ladies' and 'females' substituted: the one to English taste mawkish and vulgar; the other indistinctive and gross.

Harriet Martineau

#7. Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.

Carl Hagelin

#8. She grabbed her bag and strode to the front door, able to hear the murmur of the Hudson in the background. She wondered if the house had a water view, or if the trees blocked it. Probably didn't matter to a being who could fly up for a good vantage point.

Nalini Singh

#9. The mind is a remarcable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting

Jodi Picoult

#10. English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and sincere, one undignified and false; one far-sighted, one short; EVERYBODY will INVARIABLY choose the latter.

Cyril Connolly

#11. Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties.

Robert Graves

#12. Many different elements can form isomers, but only a few elements on the periodic table, like hafnium, can form isomers that last more than fractions of a second - and might therefore be turned into weapons.

Sam Kean

#13. 273 Ctrl+Ditto copies the formula without changing the reference.

Bill Jelen

#14. You don't only worry about the people who hate or resent you; in a way, you're more worried about the people who love you.

Calvin Klein

#15. Rahm Emanuel is, we are almost certain, a vampire.

P. J. O'Rourke

#16. Life is a process of losing our illusions, until we finally lose the illusion that we're alive.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#17. My parents told me in the very beginning as a young child when I raised the question about segregation and racial discrimination, they told me not to get in the way, not to get in trouble, not to make any noise.

John Lewis