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Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular)
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Questions signified a vulgar display of ignorance.
— Arundhati Roy
Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.
— Michel De Montaigne
It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.
— John Wanamaker
I don't do any vulgar movements.
— Elvis Presley
Forgive me, Majesty. I am a vulgar man! But I assure you, my music is not.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.
— Diana Vreeland
Everything has gotten vulgar and out of line for children to watch. It's more of a swearing match.
— Bubba Smith
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
— Samuel R. Delany
All crime is vulgar, just as all vulgarity is a crime
— Oscar Wilde
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
— Aristophanes
To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant
— Thomas Carlyle
But a dandy can never be a vulgar man.
— Charles Baudelaire
Courage is the most common and vulgar of the virtues.
— Herman Melville
A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.
— William Hazlitt
What d'you suppose I care if I'm a gentleman or not? If I were a gentleman I shouldn't waste my time with a vulgar slut like you.
— W. Somerset Maugham
The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.
— Oscar Wilde
Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.
— Voltaire
Details are always vulgar
— Oscar Wilde
Don't fucking swear," Ronan said.
— Maggie Stiefvater
That females are capable of being just as vulgar about sexual and eliminatory functions as males.
— David Foster Wallace
The Zangiacomo band was not making music; it was simply murdering silence with a vulgar, ferocious energy.
— Joseph Conrad
Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar.
— Samuel Griswold Goodrich
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.
— Henry David Thoreau
Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.
— Samuel Smiles
I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse.
— Egerton Brydges
The moment was lost in vulgar details.
— Oscar Wilde
I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit.
— Lucien Bouchard
Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral.
— Robert L. Millet
Whoever is ignorant is vulgar.
— Miguel De Cervantes
Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No one is shallow and vulgar forever; sooner or later the whole species likes to be profound.
— Carol Bly
Prettiness is terribly vulgar nowadays, and it is not every one that knows just the sort of ugliness that has chic.
— Henry James
The distinction between poets and prose writers is a vulgar error.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Demophilus stated, Do what you know to be good without expecting from it any glory. Forget not that the vulgar are a bad judge of good actions.
— Bohdi Sanders
I never viewed screen drama as a vulgar form, or a lesser one, and I've never written it left-handed.
— William Monahan
Art is visceral and vulgar - it's an eruption.
— Georg Baselitz
The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.
— Charles Baudelaire
It is disgusting to pick your teeth; what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick.
— Louis Kronenberger
Daydream is the only good thing in life. Everything else is vulgar and empty.
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.
— Carroll O'Connor
I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation.
— Jenny Eclair
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.
— Alice McDermott
There is nothing more vulgar than sophisticated kitsch.
— Dwight Macdonald
You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words.
— Pablo Picasso
People have sex, even the religious ones. Yet, when sex is transferred into words, suddenly it's dirty, vulgar, immoral, trashy. Funny huh?
— Hector Himeros
Peeling an apple with a sword is not something original; it is vulgar!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
— Emile M. Cioran
The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Frugality is for the vulgar.
— Francois Rabelais
I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
— Tennessee Williams
Pono always say slow-motion vulgar.
— Kiana Davenport
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
— Aristophanes
So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
— Edmund Waller
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
People confuse vulgar and naked with sexiness. You want the mystery!
— Carolina Herrera
We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.
— Jean-Henri Fabre
Gentlemen cherish worth; the vulgar cherish dirt. Gentlemen trust in justice; the vulgar trust in favor.
— Confucius
Life is mysterious as well as vulgar.
— Roberto Bolano
Both,' Garp wrote, 'were of the opinion that the practice of law was vulgar, but the study of it was sublime.' They
— John Irving
Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste, as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities of the vulgar.
— Thorstein Veblen
Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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.
— Francis Kilvert
I would sooner a writer were vulgar than mincing; for life is vulgar, and it is life he seeks.
— W. Somerset Maugham
By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.
— Oscar Wilde
We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.
— Walter Savage Landor
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.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
— Christopher Hitchens
Love. Really, it's responsible for the most vulgar excesses.
— Beatriz Williams
Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts.
— Francois Arago
Everyone experiences bouts of jealousy; but the dignified person conceals it, while the vulgar one acts upon it
— Ibn Taymiyyah
