A Quote by Oscar Wilde
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.
I think speed climbing is kind of an artificial discipline. Climbers compete on the same holds and train on the same holds, which doesn't have much in common with the climbing philosophy in my opinion.
In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion. But public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. When human beings are governed by "thou shalt not", the individual can practise a certain amount of eccentricity: when they are supposedly governed by "love" or "reason", he is under continuous pressure to make him behave and think in exactly the same way as everyone else.
Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious.
Here in the U.K., our government is committed to building a society that works for everyone - not just a privileged few. We must do exactly the same abroad.
Lyrics of some songs are vulgar... I feel they are not good for the society.
Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
I am not a socialite, though I seem to have got the reputation for being one. I have some very good friends who happen to be in so-called Society; but Society as such is a bore and holds no fascination for me.
How good it is to work in the invigorating fresh air under the life-giving sun amid the inspiring beauty of nature. There are many who recognize this... How good it is to earn you livelihood by contributing constructively to the society in which you live - everyone should, of course, and in a healthy society everyone would.
At home in Devon, my wife Jessica does a huge proportion of the cooking - I do the basics. My timing is extremely good, particularly when it comes to vegetables, perhaps because in my work, timing is everything. I know exactly what fits into a minute when broadcasting, and I apply the same to carrots.
Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant.
The British public deserve real choices not forced, technocratic arguments about variations of the same dead end arguments.
Rather be frumpy than vulgar! Much. Frumps are often celebrities in disguise -- but a person of vulgar appearance is vulgar all through.
The Republicans, in the various arguments, repeat exactly the same phrases one after another, with no sense of embarrassment, no sense of shame, no sense of intellectual integrity.
It is only the vulgar who are always fancying themselves insulted. If a man treads on another's toe in good society, do you think it is taken as an insult?
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