Vulgar Quotes

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

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

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.

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.

I don't do any vulgar movements.

Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

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

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

Fact is based upon vulgar matter.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

Romantics consider common sense vulgar.

If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death.

But a dandy can never be a vulgar man.

They say it figures MTV would do such a vulgar, awful, horrible show and they completely miss that it's satirizing the people who watch MTV.

The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.

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.

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially.

I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation.

Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as "a wise Latina" trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.