Vulgar Quotes

Comedy, although it is not one of the fine arts - it's a vulgar art, it's one of the people's arts, it's the spoken word, the writing that goes into it is an art form - it's certainly artistry.

Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant.

Art is visceral and vulgar - it's an eruption.

Consistency is a jewel, but too much jewelry is vulgar.

There is no other city as vulgar and obscene as Osaka. We should celebrate the image and welcome the development of casinos and red-light districts to attract people.

For goodness sakes, beware of curls… It is a great art to do them so that the girls not only look modern - but do not suddenly look very vulgar.

The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.

Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.

Frugality is for the vulgar.

I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.

I'm loud and I'm vulgar, and I wear the pants in the house because somebody's got to, but I am not a monster. I'm not.

The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages. [Lat., Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.]

It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness.

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

Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.

From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.

I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him the hidden truths beneath appearances.

The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of eternal motion.

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

Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.

But a dandy can never be a vulgar man

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

The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.

A party spirit betrays the greatest men to act as meanly as the vulgar herd.

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

The only good thing I've ever noticed about money, the only positive aspect of an otherwise pretty vulgar commodity, is that you can use it to buy things.

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

You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

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.

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

We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication .

We have created not a Brave New World, but a vulgar marketplace, where human attributes come with a price tag.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise.

Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success.

Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

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

Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

It is disgusting to pick your teeth; what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick.

The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... The movie is vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't laugh. When we laugh, it's merely human nature.

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

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.

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.