Vulgar Quotes · Page 11

Fashion is a great restraint upon your persons of taste and fancy; who would otherwise in the most trifling instances be able…

— William Shenstone

Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

— Dorothy L. Sayers

A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

There are many, many benefits to being known for whatever it is you do. To deny that would be sort of asinine…

— John Malkovich

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rather be frumpy than vulgar! Much. Frumps are often celebrities in disguise -- but a person of vulgar appearance is vulgar all…

— Emily Post

Vulgarism in language is the distinguishing characteristic of bad company, and a bad education. A man of fashion avoids nothing with more…

— Lord Chesterfield

Unfortunately, we are living in an era where plenty of songs with vulgar, objectionable lyrics are also becoming popular. It's a disturbing…

— Shreya Ghoshal

The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the…

— John Ruskin

“As with companions so with books. We may choose those which will make us better, more intelligent, more appreciative of the good…

— David O. McKay

So there's nothing more vulgar than the sound of someone saying, God Bless America, someone who doesn't really believe it, but he…

— Christopher Hitchens

Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency…

— John Pearson

Every young woman should dress well, that is, neatly, tastefully, modestly, whether she be rich or poor. Conspicuous dressing is vulgar. True…

— J.R. Miller

I've never understood the use of vulgar language, but the definition of 'risque' is open to interpretation. I suppose I did many…

— Carol Channing

Invention is an Heroic thing, and plac'd above the reach of a low, and vulgar Genius. It requires an active, a bold,…

— Thomas Sprat

Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep…

— Mark Twain

When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country.…

— W. Somerset Maugham

There are two kinds of humor. One kind that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity -- like what…

— Molly Ivins

To fall for," "to be fallen for"--I feel in these words something unspeakably vulgar, farcical, and at the same time extraordinarily complacent.…

— Osamu Dazai

But the nature of our civilized minds is so detached from the senses, even in the vulgar, by abstractions corresponding to all…

— Giambattista Vico

Eloquence, when at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection; but addressing itself entirely to the fancy or the…

— Anonymous

Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the…

— Carol Muske-Dukes

If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product…

— Roger Ebert

Madame Bovary is the sexiest book imaginable. The woman's virtually a nyphomaniac but you won't find a vulgar word in the entire…

— Noel Coward

A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing…

— Socrates

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

— Egerton Brydges

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

— William Congreve

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

— Aristophanes

It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.

— Oscar Wilde

Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend.

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Alexander Pope

The conduct of a losing party never appears right: at least it never can possess the only infallible criterion of wisdom to…

— Edmund Burke

In one point of view, Gothic is not only the best, but the only rational architecture, as being that which can fit…

— John Ruskin

Go on, fair Science; soon to thee Shall Nature yield her idle boast; Her vulgar lingers formed a tree, But thou hast…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home.

— Margaret Oliphant

Those who are addicted to the phrase "to use a vulgarism" expect to achieve the feat of being at once vulgar and…

— Henry Watson Fowler

I have seen more men than usual, lately; and, well as I was acquainted with one, I am surprised to find what…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Lydia M. Child