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“The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels; its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the heart, and love cannot exist in a heart that has lost the meek dignity of innocence.”

World Feels Mind Heart Passion Lost Interest Taste Scene Dignity And Love Innocence Ridicule Meek Hearts And Love

Book:The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry

Source: The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry

“the essence of vulgarity seemed to lie in the pretence at being or the attempt to be, something that one really was not, with the resulting lack of ease and dignity and taste.”

Lying Taste Dignity Essence Ease Pretense Vulgarity Pretence

Book:Singing Waters

Source: Singing Waters

“Dostoevky's lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity - all this is difficult to admire.”

Way Humans Persons Suffering Difficult Taste Dignity Complexes Admire Tragic Human Dignity Monotonous Dealings Wallowing Misadventure

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.”

Comedy Taste Dignity Limitation Tolerate Libel

Author:James Thurber

“It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.”

Literature Promise Taste Dignity Curiosity Curious Paradise Civilized Creeds

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.”

Littles Inspiration Nice Fashion Taste Dignity Vulgarity Bad Taste Fashion Icon Great Fashion Shoes And Fashion Clothes And Fashion

Author:Dorothy Parker

“Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.”

Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare