Vulgar Quotes

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

Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.

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

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

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

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

Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.

No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.

The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.

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

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.

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

But a dandy can never be a vulgar man

Frugality is for the vulgar.

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

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

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

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

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.

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

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.

The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American.

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

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.

Rage is essentially vulgar.

A cat is never vulgar.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The rest were vulgar deaths unknown to fame.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular.

Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all.

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

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

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

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

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