1.
Everyone experiences bouts of jealousy; but the dignified person conceals it, while the vulgar one acts upon it
Ibn Taymiyyah
Every individual encounters moments of envy; however, the honorable person masks it, while the uncouth one responds to it.
 
2.
Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.
Voltaire
 
4.
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
Henri Frederic Amiel
 
6.
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it.
Henry Beston
 
7.
Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.
Samuel Beckett
 
8.
No crime is vulgar,
but all vulgarity is crime.
Oscar Wilde
 
9.
The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.
Ovid
 
10.
The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.
John Ruskin
 
11.
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.
Joris-Karl Huysmans
 
14.
A gentleman considers what is right; the vulgar consider what will pay.
Confucius
 
16.
We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.
Jean-Henri Fabre
 
18.
Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.
Diana Vreeland
 
19.
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.
George Gilder
 
22.
So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
Edmund Waller
 
23.
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
Ben Jonson
 
24.
Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation.
Marshall McLuhan
 
26.
A gentleman is calm and spacious: the vulgar are always fretting.
Confucius
 
27.
Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the good how far,-but far above the great.
Thomas Gray
 
28.
The rest were vulgar deaths unknown to fame.
Homer
 
29.
The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
Emile M. Cioran
 
30.
I have heard him [William Harvey] say, that after his Booke of the Circulation of the Blood came-out, that he fell mightily in his Practize, and that 'twas beleeved by the vulgar that he was crack-brained.
John Aubrey
 
31.
The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American.
Stan Brakhage
 
32.
I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority.
Horace Walpole
 
34.
The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.
Tanith Lee
 
35.
I think politics have gotten vulgar and we comedically portray that.
Will Ferrell
 
36.
Rather be frumpy than vulgar! Much. Frumps are often celebrities in disguise -- but a person of vulgar appearance is vulgar all through.
Emily Post
 
37.
How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.
Horace Walpole
 
38.
Sir, I have seen your film and it is vulgar! Madame, my film rises below vulgarity.
Mel Brooks
 
39.
It is quite a common and vulgar thing among humans to understand, foresee, know and predict the troubles of others. But oh what a rare thing it is to predict, know, foresee and understand one's own troubles.
Francois Rabelais
 
40.
I'm vulgar, I'm a populist. But isn't that what the mayor should be?
Jeffrey Archer
 
41.
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.
Noel Coward
 
42.
Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar.
Mignon McLaughlin
 
43.
It's vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.
Gordon Ramsay
 
44.
I never viewed screen drama as a vulgar form, or a lesser one, and I've never written it left-handed.
William Monahan
 
45.
I have always refused to do something that has offended me. I have been offered potential roles that are totally vulgar.
Christopher Walken
 
49.
An habitation giddy and unsure Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart.
William Shakespeare
 
50.
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.
Jesse Jackson