William S. Wilson Quote

Fatally, the term 'barbarian' is the password that opens up the archives of the twentieth century. It refers to the despiser of achievement, the vandal, the status denier, the iconoclast, who refuses...

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

I believe...that to be very poor and very beautiful is most probably a moral failure more than an artistic success. Shakespeare would have done well in any generation because he would have refused to...

...The coarse rhetoric and reduction of women to violently empty reproductive organs isn't a great way to argue against Trump's vulgarity. The unhinged rhetoric, violent anti-speech street protests,an...

Ah fuckin hate the way some American cunts call lassies cunts. Fuckin offensive, that shite.

I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.

Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But they were all around; it was Manlius who lived in a dream world, and...

[O]ne man's vulgarity is another's lyric.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.