Vulgar Quotes

Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties.

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.

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

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

Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.

The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.

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

I would still have old ladies come up to me after the show and pat me on the cheek after I had said all this vulgar stuff. They would be like, 'Oh you're a silly boy - we know you're just playing.

My mother was always the one with the dark, really filthy sense of humor. She was a vulgar woman. She used to tell me to do comedy before I even tried it. She was always up for any gag.

The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation.

Courage is the most common and vulgar of the virtues.

Without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless

I'm vulgar, I'm a populist. But isn't that what the mayor should be?

Nothing is more horrible than my self in the mirror of hysteria. Nothing is more vulgar than my style in the hands of another. Toimitate me is to punish me.

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

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

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

There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the ecstasy of ear-splitting noise, ecstasy in the soccer stadium.

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.

...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.

Conservatism, being an upper-class characteristic, is decorous; and conversely, innovation, being a lower-class phenomenon, is vulgar. ...Innovation is bad form.

There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion!

The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.

To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' --- that was the worst thing.

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.

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

A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman: a gentleman, in the vulgar superficial way of understanding the word, is the Devil's Christian.

Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders: a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by talk of vulgar, mundane things like pay.

Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.

Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar.

You could be as vulgar as you want, as long as three tiny spots were covered.

My friends know that I have a silly sense of humour and I can be a little vulgar at times - but just with people that I am close to.

No one is shallow and vulgar forever; sooner or later the whole species likes to be profound.

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.

Fact is based upon vulgar matter.

Hot soup at table is very vulgar; it either leads to an unseemly mode of taking it, or keeps people waiting too long whilst it cools. Soup should be brought to table only moderately warm.

If there is one notion I hate more than another, it is that of marriage - I mean marriage in the vulgar, weak sense, as a mere matter of sentiment.

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.

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

I wanted to make a film about stupid people that was very vulgar and deeply stupid. From that moment on I can hardly be reproached for making a film that is about stupid people.

Corporations never actually mention 'money'; that would be vulgar. They prefer such words as 'turnover,' 'profit,' 'salary,' 'revenue,' 'budget,' 'premium,' and 'savings,' all much more refined.

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

There was a time when it was considered vulgar and unnecessary to pursue money, but today anyone who doesn't believe in money must be out of their minds!

Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular.

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.

I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse.

I don't do any vulgar movements.

The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks.

Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts.