“Vulgar language," Chan said..."Always the first and last refuge of the man with nothing to say.” — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
There is no other city as vulgar and obscene as Osaka. We should celebrate the image and welcome the development of casinos… — Toru Hashimoto Copy Share Image
Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in.… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire. — George Crane Copy Share Image
I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
“At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“You're not stupid, you're just special! You have morons in your head instead of neurons!” — The Fart Blast Copy Share Image
The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises. 'Tis the vulgar great who come dizened with gold… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When you’re young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Lord Byron is an exceedingly interesting person, and as such is it not to be regretted that he is a slave to… — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
We have lost the old love of work, of work which kept itself company, which was fair weather and music in the… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Regan has been amused, in the intervening years, to watch editors who rolled their eyes at Limbaugh scramble to try to duplicate… — Judith Regan Copy Share Image
Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
I am edgy, raw, offensive, vulgar, untruthful, but intelligent. My jokes are always realistic. I do not make fun of children or… — Vir Das Copy Share Image
What Music expresses is eternal, infinite, and ideal; she expresses not the passion, love, desire, of this or that individual in this… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs. — Carroll O'Connor Copy Share Image
Now as before it is the vulgar and the vital and the possibility of its transformation into the beautiful which continues to… — Grace Hartigan Copy Share Image
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an antiquary's study, not; the black battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie. — Israel Zangwill Copy Share Image
I regard posterity as vulgar as success. I don't trust posterity. I don't think what's good is necessarily recognized in the long… — Peter Biskind Copy Share Image
The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease, and the manner of a gentleman has ease without freedom. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
One's worst enormities remain within, and it is only one's vulgar commonplaces of error and folly that turn into murders and suicides,… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
If there is one notion I hate more than another, it is that of marriage - I mean marriage in the vulgar,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
People call things 'vulgar' when they are new to them. When they have become old, they become 'good taste.' — Mary Quant Copy Share Image
For goodness sakes, beware of curls… It is a great art to do them so that the girls not only look modern… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation. — Jenny Eclair Copy Share Image
The worship of Mammon may be vulgar or immoral, but it persists while other religions falter and disappear. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
I use profanity because I like profanity, but I'm not vulgar. Big difference. I love profanity because I really think profanity is… — Godfrey Copy Share Image
A man might actually brush off vulgar tweets that come to him. Women are likely to be affected by it. — Chinmayi Copy Share Image
“People have sex, even the religious ones. Yet, when sex is transferred into words, suddenly it's dirty, vulgar, immoral, trashy. Funny huh?” — Hector Himeros Copy Share Image
There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
