Quotes about Vulgar

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation. Votes: 8

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing. Votes: 6

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind. Votes: 6

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth. Votes: 6

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him. Votes: 6

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. Votes: 6

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. Votes: 6

There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is. Votes: 6

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. Votes: 6

The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness. Votes: 4

No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime. Votes: 4

Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. Votes: 4

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste. Votes: 4

The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success. Votes: 4

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined. Votes: 4

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. Votes: 4

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste. Votes: 4

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar. Votes: 4

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. Votes: 4

To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. Votes: 4

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action. Votes: 4

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. Votes: 4

A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true. Votes: 4

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else. Votes: 4

Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men. Votes: 3

He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy. Votes: 3

Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs. Votes: 3

Cowards shrink from toil and peril, Vulgar souls attempt and fail; Men of mettle, nothing daunted, Persevere till they prevail. Votes: 3

Vulgar prejudices are those which arise out of accident, ignorance, or authority; natural prejudices are those which arise out of the constitution of the human mind itself. Votes: 3

Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form or told their use. Votes: 3

The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... is the movie vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't laugh. When we laugh, it's merely human nature. Votes: 3

Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime admiring it and discovering new and changing phenomena that delight them. So it is with love. Votes: 3

Vulgarism in language is the distinguishing characteristic of bad company, and a bad education. A man of fashion avoids nothing with more care than that. Proverbial expressions, and trite sayings, are the flowers of the rhetoric of vulgar man. Votes: 3

Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death. Votes: 3

There is nothing simple or dull in achieving the transparent page. Vulgar ostentation is twice as easy as discipline. When you realise that ugly typography never effaces itself, you will be able to capture beauty as the wise men capture happiness by aiming at something else. Votes: 3

A cat is never vulgar. Votes: 2

But a dandy can never be a vulgar man. Votes: 2

I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit. Votes: 2

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. Votes: 2

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal. Votes: 2

We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd. Votes: 2

I'm quite into the French way - simple elegance with just a suggestion of sexiness, nothing vulgar. Votes: 2

I have always refused to do something that has offended me. I have been offered potential roles that are totally vulgar. Votes: 2

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true. Votes: 2

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar. Votes: 2

I find it vulgar that people are so fascinated by natural disasters, and we allow footage of young people that are looting because they have no choice because of natural disaster. Votes: 2

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed. Votes: 2

I wanted to make a film about stupid people that was very vulgar and deeply stupid. From that moment on I can hardly be reproached for making a film that is about stupid people. Votes: 2

Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor. Votes: 2

When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness. Votes: 2

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I'm not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent - just like there's a side of me that's vulgar and violent. Votes: 2

There's a bizarre prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tri-state area is being done by trained chimpanzees, that geography screens out sensibility. There's an idea that all Los Angeles writing is about the movie industry, that it's vulgar, shallow and banal. Votes: 2

Rage is essentially vulgar. Votes: 0

Romantics consider common sense vulgar. Votes: 0

Whoever is ignorant is vulgar. Votes: 0

Frugality is for the vulgar. Votes: 0

I don't do any vulgar movements. Votes: 0

Fact is based upon vulgar matter. Votes: 0

Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar. Votes: 0

I like the trivial, vulgar and exalted. Votes: 0

Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd. Votes: 0

Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar Votes: 0

The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious. Votes: 0

Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar. Votes: 0

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg. Votes: 0

The rest were vulgar deaths unknown to fame. Votes: 0

Art is visceral and vulgar - it's an eruption. Votes: 0

But a dandy can never be a vulgar man Votes: 0

The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American. Votes: 0

Consistency is a jewel, but too much jewelry is vulgar. Votes: 0

The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important. Votes: 0

Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull. Votes: 0

The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar. Votes: 0

Courage is the most common and vulgar of the virtues. Votes: 0

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common. Votes: 0

People confuse vulgar and naked with sexiness. You want the mystery! Votes: 0

A gentleman is calm and spacious: the vulgar are always fretting. Votes: 0

Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring. Votes: 0

It's vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money. Votes: 0

I would never, ever do anything as vulgar as having fun. Votes: 0

Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill. Votes: 0

Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena. Votes: 0

I think politics have gotten vulgar and we comedically portray that. Votes: 0

The undressed is vulgar; the nude is pure, and the well-dressed tainted. Votes: 0

A gentleman considers what is right; the vulgar consider what will pay. Votes: 0

I know I'm vulgar, but would you have me any other way? Votes: 0

To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant Votes: 0

I'm a vulgar lounge entertainer, I don't need to wear a tie. Votes: 0

The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million. Votes: 0

The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages. [Lat., Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.] Votes: 0

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness. Votes: 0

I'm vulgar, I'm a populist. But isn't that what the mayor should be? Votes: 0

Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation. Votes: 0

Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar. Votes: 0

Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness. Votes: 0

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people. Votes: 0

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it. Votes: 0

Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible. Votes: 0

The workforce in Latin America was treated as a vulgar instrument for capital accumulation. Votes: 0

I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar. Votes: 0

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions. Votes: 0

I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar. Votes: 0

I love the vulgar. I kind of have the humor of a 17-year-old boy. Votes: 0

The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants. Votes: 0

Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral. Votes: 0

The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius. Votes: 0

The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh. Votes: 0

Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar. Votes: 0

So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould. Votes: 0

I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't. Votes: 0

A party spirit betrays the greatest men to act as meanly as the vulgar herd. Votes: 0

I didn't like the '80s at all; it was a vulgar moment of fashion. Votes: 0

No music is vulgar, unless it is played in a way that makes it so. Votes: 0

The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar. Votes: 0

The leader, mingling with the vulgar host, Is in the common mass of matter lost. Votes: 0

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style. Votes: 0

It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially. Votes: 0

Gentlemen cherish worth; the vulgar cherish dirt. Gentlemen trust in justice; the vulgar trust in favor. Votes: 0

The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar. Votes: 0

Sir, I have seen your film and it is vulgar! Madame, my film rises below vulgarity. Votes: 0

Forgive me, Majesty. I am a vulgar man! But I assure you, my music is not. Votes: 0

You could be as vulgar as you want, as long as three tiny spots were covered. Votes: 0

From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. Votes: 0

Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar. Votes: 0

We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd. Votes: 0

It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected. Votes: 0

It is disgusting to pick your teeth; what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick. Votes: 0

I think the whole aspect of social networking is vulgar and repulsive in a lot of ways. Votes: 0

Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant. Votes: 0

Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary. Votes: 0

Lynching is the method of vulgar men! He who is deprived of compassion is deprived of everything! Votes: 0

Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the good how far,-but far above the great. Votes: 0

No one is shallow and vulgar forever; sooner or later the whole species likes to be profound. Votes: 0

I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation. Votes: 0

nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular ... Votes: 0

I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite. Votes: 0

We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication . Votes: 0

Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts. Votes: 0

The worship of Mammon may be vulgar or immoral, but it persists while other religions falter and disappear. Votes: 0

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar. Votes: 0

Everyone experiences bouts of jealousy; but the dignified person conceals it, while the vulgar one acts upon it Votes: 0

Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches. Votes: 0

Everything has gotten vulgar and out of line for children to watch. It's more of a swearing match. Votes: 0

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments. Votes: 0

I never viewed screen drama as a vulgar form, or a lesser one, and I've never written it left-handed. Votes: 0

Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at least;Cocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast. Votes: 0

Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say. Votes: 0

Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity. Votes: 0

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them. Votes: 0

...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds. Votes: 0

There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion! Votes: 0

Conservatism, being an upper-class characteristic, is decorous; and conversely, innovation, being a lower-class phenomenon, is vulgar. ...Innovation is bad form. Votes: 0

The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here. Votes: 0

The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery. Votes: 0

The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality. Votes: 0

The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery Votes: 0

We have created not a Brave New World, but a vulgar marketplace, where human attributes come with a price tag. Votes: 0

How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians. Votes: 0

The hedges are spruting like chicks from the eggs when they are newly hatched or as the vulgar says clacked. Votes: 0

The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease, and the manner of a gentleman has ease without freedom. Votes: 0

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius. Votes: 0

The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. Votes: 0

The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand. Votes: 0

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. Votes: 0

Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar. Votes: 0

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties. Votes: 0

A man is crazy who writes a secret in any other way than one which will conceal it from the vulgar. Votes: 0

A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home. Votes: 0

I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. Votes: 0

Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius. Votes: 0

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person. Votes: 0

Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend. Votes: 0

Openness, as currently conceived, is a way of making surrender to whatever is most powerful, or worship of vulgar success, look principled. Votes: 0

I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority. Votes: 0

By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void. Votes: 0

The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie. Votes: 0

It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties. Votes: 0

I am not used to doing naked shoots but when you trust the photographer and the crew, you know it won't be vulgar. Votes: 0

He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action. Votes: 0

Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste, as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities of the vulgar. Votes: 0

If you're not [Federico] Fellini you might make something very vulgar. Animation made it possible to maintain unity with all these different narratives. Votes: 0

I use profanity because I like profanity, but I'm not vulgar. Big difference. I love profanity because I really think profanity is cool. Votes: 0

Rather be frumpy than vulgar! Much. Frumps are often celebrities in disguise -- but a person of vulgar appearance is vulgar all through. Votes: 0

Madame Bovary is the sexiest book imaginable. The woman's virtually a nyphomaniac but you won't find a vulgar word in the entire thing. Votes: 0

Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality. Votes: 0

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone. Votes: 0

If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can't be moral, at least we can avoid being vulgar. Votes: 0

Paris strikes the vulgar part of us infinitely the most, but to a thinking mind London is incomparably the most delightful subject for contemplation. Votes: 0

The loveliest tune imaginable becomes vulgar and insupportable as soon as the public begins to hum it and the hurdy-gurdies make it their own. Votes: 0

Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it's followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public. Votes: 0

MUMMY, n. - an ancient Egyptian handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals. Votes: 0

The conduct of a losing party never appears right: at least it never can possess the only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgements-success. Votes: 0

I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse. Votes: 0

The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation. Votes: 0

The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more vulgar companions. Votes: 0

Without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless Votes: 0

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine. Votes: 0

There are many, many benefits to being known for whatever it is you do. To deny that would be sort of asinine and vulgar. Votes: 0

They say it figures MTV would do such a vulgar, awful, horrible show and they completely miss that it's satirizing the people who watch MTV. Votes: 0

When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle and spiritual idea. Votes: 0

To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' --- that was the worst thing. Votes: 0

The world was a cruder, more vulgar place than the one I had known. This was the language required to live in it, I supposed. Votes: 0

Those who are addicted to the phrase "to use a vulgarism" expect to achieve the feat of being at once vulgar and superior to vulgarity. Votes: 0

Of all noxious animals, the most noxious is a tourist. And of all tourists the most vulgar, ill-bred, offensive and loathsome is the British tourist. Votes: 0

As well as being a vulgar producer of her own spectacle, and an embarrassment to her family, Cindy Sheehan is at best a shifty fantasist. Votes: 0

For those whose goal it is to twist wrong into right, a good starting point is to convince young people that the vulgar is beautiful. Votes: 0

The commonwealth is sick of their own choice;Their over-greedy love has surfeited.An habitation giddy and unsureHath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart. Votes: 0

I'm loud and I'm vulgar, and I wear the pants in the house because somebody's got to, but I am not a monster. I'm not. Votes: 0

People who attack biography choose as their models vulgar and offensive biography. You could equally attack novels or poems by choosing bad poems or novels. Votes: 0

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy Votes: 0

Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics. Votes: 0

It's a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator's experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist's. Votes: 0

Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one. Votes: 0

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy. Votes: 0

Life should be a constant vision of God's presence. Here is our defense against being led away by the gauds and shows of earth's vulgar attractions. Votes: 0

There are tonalities which are noble and others which are vulgar, harmonies which are calm or consoling, and others which are exciting because of their boldness. Votes: 0

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore. Votes: 0

One's worst enormities remain within, and it is only one's vulgar commonplaces of error and folly that turn into murders and suicides, treasons, infidelities, and betrayals. Votes: 0

I have seen more men than usual, lately; and, well as I was acquainted with one, I am surprised to find what vulgar fellows they are. Votes: 0

The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls. Votes: 0

Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns. Votes: 0

What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it is. Votes: 0

A careless and blasphemous use of the name of the Divine Being is not only sinful, but it is also prima facie evidence of vulgar associations. Votes: 0

Now as before it is the vulgar and the vital and the possibility of its transformation into the beautiful which continues to challenge and fascinate me. Votes: 0

There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar. Votes: 0

It is quite beneath the dignity of a person holding a Bachelor of Arts degree to engage in such a vulgar occupation as the writing of novels. Votes: 0

Go on, fair Science; soon to thee Shall Nature yield her idle boast; Her vulgar lingers formed a tree, But thou hast trained it to a post. Votes: 0

I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him the hidden truths beneath appearances. Votes: 0

A vulgar man is captious and jealous; eager and impetuous about trifles. He suspects himself to be slighted, and thinks everything that is said meant at him. Votes: 0

The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of eternal motion. Votes: 0

Every political sect has its esoteric and its exoteric school--its abstract doctrines for the initiated; its visible symbols, its imposing forms, its mythological fables, for the vulgar. Votes: 0

In vulgar usage, progress has come to mean limitless movement in space and time, accompanied, necessarily, by an equally limitless command of energy: culminating in limitless destruction. Votes: 0

There is no other city as vulgar and obscene as Osaka. We should celebrate the image and welcome the development of casinos and red-light districts to attract people. Votes: 0

A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one nor the other. Votes: 0

Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts. Votes: 0

Fashion is a great restraint upon your persons of taste and fancy; who would otherwise in the most trifling instances be able to distinguish themselves from the vulgar. Votes: 0

The only good thing I've ever noticed about money, the only positive aspect of an otherwise pretty vulgar commodity, is that you can use it to buy things. Votes: 0

There was a time when it was considered vulgar and unnecessary to pursue money, but today anyone who doesn't believe in money must be out of their minds! Votes: 0

It was just the sort of yatch you'd expect a rock promoter to have. Mirrored ceilings, marble, Jacuzzis and leopard-skin everything, it made the merely vulgar seem commonplace. Votes: 0

The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to which the senses do not lead. Votes: 0

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise. Votes: 0

Why would anyone be able to make $21 million not showing up for work for a single day? That is vulgar capitalism. That is not good for the nation. Votes: 0

Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism. Votes: 0

But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things. Votes: 0

Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar. Votes: 0

Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an antiquary's study, not; the black battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but the dirty face of a housemaid is. Votes: 0

Of all the vulgar arts of government, that of solving every difficulty that might arise by thrusting the hand into the public purse is the most illusory and contemptible. Votes: 0

Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders: a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by talk of vulgar, mundane things like pay. Votes: 0

The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence. Votes: 0

People are getting attention for doing nothing, for behaving poorly, for abusing themselves in public and being abused, exploiting themselves. I find it vulgar and I find it awful. Votes: 0

I regard posterity as vulgar as success. I don't trust posterity. I don't think what's good is necessarily recognized in the long run. Too many good writers have disappeared. Votes: 0

If one were truly aware of the value of human life, to waste it blithely on distractions and the pursuit of vulgar ambitions would be the height of confusion. Votes: 0

He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other. Votes: 0

Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If there is one notion I hate more than another, it is that of marriage - I mean marriage in the vulgar, weak sense, as a mere matter of sentiment. Votes: 0

Devotion as an act is vulgar. Devotion as a way of life is wonderful. If you are a great devotee, it is ugly. If you are devout, it is beautiful. Votes: 0

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss. Votes: 0

Nothing is more horrible than my self in the mirror of hysteria. Nothing is more vulgar than my style in the hands of another. Toimitate me is to punish me. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

My friends know that I have a silly sense of humour and I can be a little vulgar at times - but just with people that I am close to. Votes: 0

My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression Votes: 0

The wretched beings depicted by Millet touch us profoundly because he loved them profoundly. They have nothing in common with vulgar ugliness. Beauty will always remain the highest aim of art. Votes: 0

He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented. Votes: 0

There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the ecstasy of ear-splitting noise, ecstasy in the soccer stadium. Votes: 0

In one point of view, Gothic is not only the best, but the only rational architecture, as being that which can fit itself most easily to all services, vulgar or noble. Votes: 0

We reduce the deity to vulgar fractions. We place our own little ambitions and label them ?divine messages?. With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Votes: 0

Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion. Votes: 0

I am edgy, raw, offensive, vulgar, untruthful, but intelligent. My jokes are always realistic. I do not make fun of children or people who cannot fight back. That is my limitation. Votes: 0

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day. Votes: 0

We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice Votes: 0

The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks. Votes: 0

For goodness sakes, beware of curls… It is a great art to do them so that the girls not only look modern - but do not suddenly look very vulgar. Votes: 0

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether. Votes: 0

It is always a vulgar and often an unhealthy pastime, and it is a vice which does not go alone; the man who gambles will find himself capable of any evil. Votes: 0

There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant. Votes: 0

If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy. Votes: 0

We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read. Votes: 0

In terms of being vulgar, I don't think you need to be violent unless it's slapstick, violence to yourself. That can be funny - we've all tripped and fallen on our faces. Votes: 0

A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose chief merit is the art of keeping himself in place. Votes: 0

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel -- it's vulgar. Votes: 0

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed. Votes: 0

Semi-Tough pokes fun in rambling fashion, but it is vulgar in intelligent ways and almost always amusing in its perceptions of befuddled people who are perfectly healthy but often convinced they're not. Votes: 0

Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their representative American, someone who actually embodies all of those qualities. Votes: 0

Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

On one side you have book burners, Congressional wives and Pat Robertson. On the other side, you have vulgar comedians, foul-mouthed rap groups and Dennis Hopper—all your choices should be so easy. Votes: 0

When you have God come amongst you to support and sustain you, why grovel through crude vulgar entities? Avoid places where they bargain in terms of gifts, donations, for Spiritual guidance and Transmission. Votes: 0

Corporations never actually mention 'money'; that would be vulgar. They prefer such words as 'turnover,' 'profit,' 'salary,' 'revenue,' 'budget,' 'premium,' and 'savings,' all much more refined. Votes: 0

Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind. Votes: 0

I am of the level with common Astrologers; who, with an old paltry cant, and a few pot-hooks for planets to amuse the vulgar, have too long been suffered to abuse the world. Votes: 0

Moderate sorrow Fits vulgar love, and for a vulgar man: But I have lov'd with such transcendent passion, I soar'd, at first, quite out of reason's view, And now am lost above it. Votes: 0

Being an art buyer these days is comprehensively and indisputably vulgar. It is the sport of the Eurotrashy, Hedge-fundy, Hamptonites; of trendy oligarchs and oiligarchs; and of art dealers with masturbatory levels of self-regard. Votes: 0

I didn't cry when I left free-booting, smash-and-grab papers that would have appeared to be far more natural homes for me and, at the risk of being vulgar, paid far better for my services. Votes: 0

Fly not yet; 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sons of night And maids who love the moon. Votes: 0

War provides an outlet for every evil element in man's nature. It enfranchises cupidity and greed gives a charter to petty tyranny, glorifies cruelty and places in positions of power the vulgar and base. Votes: 0

You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt. Votes: 0

Hot soup at table is very vulgar; it either leads to an unseemly mode of taking it, or keeps people waiting too long whilst it cools. Soup should be brought to table only moderately warm. Votes: 0

When I say that a good picture has surprise quality or shock appeal, I do not mean that it is a loud or vulgar picture but, instead, that it stimulates my thinking and intrigues me. Votes: 0

Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain higher claims in secret, and looks about for the means of satisfying them. Votes: 0

A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success, and is based on blindness to the nobility of the effort, is vulgar. Votes: 0

Over the years, the idea seems to have grown up that brightly coloured flowers are vulgar, and that the only flowers to be admitted to the walled garden of good taste are discreet and pastel-hued. Votes: 0

Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible. Votes: 0

One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we have seen what priestcraft and fanaticism can do, and credulity believe. Votes: 0

The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life. Votes: 0

Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance. Votes: 0

The vulgar and common esteem is seldom happy in hitting right; and I am much mistaken if, amongst the writings of my time, the worst are not those which have most gained the popular applause. Votes: 0