Vulgar Quotes

Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.

— William Shakespeare

Romantics consider common sense vulgar.

— Mason Cooley

But a dandy can never be a vulgar man

— Charles Baudelaire

Whoever is ignorant is vulgar.

— Miguel de Cervantes

“Only the vulgar reveal all.”

— Bryant McGill

Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.

— Voltaire

“Nothing more vulgar than a vow broken.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Life is mysterious as well as vulgar.”

— Last Evenings On Earth Roberto Bolano

Courage is the most common and vulgar of the virtues.

— Herman Melville

The undressed is vulgar; the nude is pure, and the well-dressed tainted.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

— Bo Derek

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

One should not promote lyrics that are vulgar.

— Kumar Sanu

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

— Will Ferrell

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

— Stendhal

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

— Confucius

Nothing is more horrible than my self in the mirror of hysteria. Nothing is more vulgar than my style in the hands…

— Karl Kraus

The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to…

— John Lancaster Spalding

I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority.

— Horace Walpole

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it…

— Oscar Wilde

Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old…

— Vladimir Nabokov

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

— Emily Post

Devotion as an act is vulgar. Devotion as a way of life is wonderful. If you are a great devotee, it is…

— Jaggi Vasudev

He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

We reduce the deity to vulgar fractions. We place our own little ambitions and label them ?divine messages?. With our short sight…

— Paul Laurence Dunbar

Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they…

— Lord Chesterfield

A simple garb is the proper costume of the vulgar; it is cut for them, and exactly suits their measure, but it…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“Where do you get that logic from? You're either getting the cheap-ass knock-off type of logic or getting fucking scammed right up…

— The Fart Blast

Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet…

— Ellen Glasgow

Kirstie [Alley] saved me, in a way. [At the time], I had a terrible marriage, and I stayed at her house. She…

— Bebe Neuwirth

The consolations of the vulgar are bitter in the royal ear. Let physicians and confectioners and servants in the great houses be…

— Isak Dinesen

Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Among the innumerable mortifications which waylay human arrogance on every side may well be reckoned our ignorance of the most common objects…

— Samuel Johnson

To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar…

— Arundhati Roy

Thus you may multiply each stone 4 times & no more for they will then become oyles shining in ye dark and…

— Isaac Newton

A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants… The large and rapid fortunes…

— Fanny Kemble

Within the Nazi Party, the beginnings of a personality cult around Hitler go back to the year before the [Munich] putsch... Outside…

— Ian Kershaw

In the early forties and fifties almost everybody "had about enough to live on," and young ladies dressed well on a hundred…

— M. E. W. Sherwood