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Vulgar Quotes

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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.
Authors on Vulgar Quotes: Horace Walpole Oscar Wilde Confucius Francois Rabelais Edmund Waller John Aubrey Ibn Taymiyyah Alexander Pope Herbert von Karajan Thomas Carlyle Charles Olson Ben Jonson Mary MacLane Henri Frederic Amiel Valentino Garavani Elizabeth Taylor John Ruskin Alice McDermott Jean-Henri Fabre Thomas Gray Christopher Hitchens Benjamin Franklin Mel Brooks Gordon Ramsay Tanith Lee Elvis Presley Joris-Karl Huysmans Ovid Will Ferrell Jeffrey Archer Stan Brakhage Diana Vreeland Michel de Montaigne
2.
Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.
Voltaire

3.
I know I'm vulgar, but would you have me any other way?
Elizabeth Taylor

4.
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
Henri Frederic Amiel

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

6.
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it.
Henry Beston

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

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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.
Oscar Wilde

9.
The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.
John Ruskin

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The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.
Ovid

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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

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But a dandy can never be a vulgar man
Charles Baudelaire

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Frugality is for the vulgar.
Francois Rabelais

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

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We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.
Jean-Henri Fabre

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

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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
Alexander Pope

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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

19.
Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.
Diana Vreeland

20.
A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.
William Hazlitt

21.
Rage is essentially vulgar.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

22.
A cat is never vulgar.
Carl Van Vechten

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

24.
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
Ben Jonson

25.
Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation.
Marshall McLuhan

26.
The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

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

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

29.
The rest were vulgar deaths unknown to fame.
Homer

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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

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

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

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The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American.
Stan Brakhage

34.
Rather be frumpy than vulgar! Much. Frumps are often celebrities in disguise -- but a person of vulgar appearance is vulgar all through.
Emily Post

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

36.
The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.
Tanith Lee

37.
I think politics have gotten vulgar and we comedically portray that.
Will Ferrell

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

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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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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I like the trivial, vulgar and exalted.
J. V. Cunningham

49.
Fact is based upon vulgar matter.
Charles Olson

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The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious.
Michel de Montaigne