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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

Religion realizes philosophy by adapting it to the weaknesses of the vulgar.... — Eliphas Levi

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. — Stendhal

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

Vulgar, but not as vulgar as Louis Vuitton, thought Sherman. — Tom Wolfe

I don't do any vulgar movements. — Elvis Presley

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined. — Mark Twain

Oscar Wilde said that "All crime is vulgar, just as all vulgarity is crime," and then got sent off to Reading Gaol to reconsider and write ballads. — Mark Forsyth

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

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing. — Oscar Wilde

I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't. — D.H. Lawrence

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

Openness, as currently conceived, is a way of making surrender to whatever is most powerful, or worship of vulgar success, look principled. — Allan Bloom

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

My one quarrel is with words. That is the reason I hate vulgar realism in literature. — Oscar Wilde

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

Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar. — Stendhal

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

Being vulgar to be funny is a crutch, and I prefer wheelchairs. — Jarod Kintz

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

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

Racist words and vulgar threats will puncture down deep to the soul. — Angela Brown

Prettiness is terribly vulgar nowadays, and it is not every one that knows just the sort of ugliness that has chic. — Henry James

Don't get me wrong - intellectual snobbery is vulgar and gauche. — Robert Webb

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

Paris strikes the vulgar part of us infinitely the most, but to a thinking mind London is incomparably the most delightful subject for contemplation. — Samuel Rogers

You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words. — Pablo Picasso

I don't object to the proliferation of the 'f-bomb' in screenplays because the adjective is vulgar but because it is unimaginative. — Ron Brackin

If Rome, a city of the vulgar living, had been depressing after Greece, London, a city of the drab dead, was fifty times worse. — John Fowles

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

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

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. — Tammy Bruce

People confuse vulgar and naked with sexiness. You want the mystery! — Carolina Herrera

She was a living reverie for me: the mere sight of her sparked an almost infinite range of fantasy, from Greek to Gothic, from vulgar to divine. — Anonymous

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

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. — Edmund Burke

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

You know how some people get sun-kissed, well i got sun bitch slapped — Ryan Oliveira

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

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

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

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

If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can't be moral, at least we can avoid being vulgar. — Langdon Elwyn Mitchell

Modern dances always seem to me so vulgar. So much hopping about; like a scene from a mental ward! — Sarah Waters