“Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.”
“I know nothing more stupid and indeed vulgar than wanting to be right.”
“Nothing has more retarded the advancement of learning than the disposition of vulgar minds to ridicule and vilify what they cannot comprehend.”
“In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable - than to be civil or creative or truly original.”
“Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, whose lives are filled with cause for rebellion, be taught that all is right as it is.”
“I had kissed her at odd times, in out of the way corners, in the manner of a mountain guide, nothing more.”