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
A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home. — Margaret Oliphant 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
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 Copy Share Image
The conduct of a losing party never appears right: at least it never can possess the only infallible criterion of wisdom to… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In one point of view, Gothic is not only the best, but the only rational architecture, as being that which can fit… — John Ruskin 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
Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I wanted to make a film about stupid people that was very vulgar and deeply stupid. From that moment on I can… — Claude Chabrol Copy Share Image
We had a heroic attitude to artistic freedom, and we thought normal contracts were a bit vulgar - somehow not punk. But… — Tony Wilson Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, there's a lot of confusion today over what is sexy and what is vulgar. It's horrifying. They say, 'Oh, that girl… — Carolina Herrera Copy Share Image
Corporations never actually mention 'money'; that would be vulgar. They prefer such words as 'turnover,' 'profit,' 'salary,' 'revenue,' 'budget,' 'premium,' and 'savings,'… — Corinne Maier Copy Share Image
I don't really get the same kinda romance that I would get from, like, jazz. And even to a lesser extent to… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
I'm having to do a lot to keep my clothes on and not be cast in girlfriend roles. Some women will say,… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
But if you get a kick out of "The Jerry Springer Show," you're going to love it! The idea of hearing these… — Max von Essen Copy Share Image
It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to bind the beholder. But true genius seeks to defend us from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Contrary to vulgar legend the lives of great ballerinas are not entirely given up to a few minutes of graceful movement every… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
She dealt her pretty words like Blades -- How glittering they shone -- And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
just as violence is the last refuge of the inarticulate, so it is also the first resort of the incompetent, the easy… — Judith Crist Copy Share Image
“For the Age has itself become vulgar, and most people have no idea to what extent they are themselves tainted. The bad… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
I use the [vulgar] words because apparently these words do not corrupt morally. I'm from the street in New York, hung around… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant. — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Paris strikes the vulgar part of us infinitely the most, but to a thinking mind London is incomparably the most delightful subject… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
Of all the vulgar arts of government, that of solving every difficulty that might arise by thrusting the hand into the public… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders: a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“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
Vulgar prejudices are those which arise out of accident, ignorance, or authority; natural prejudices are those which arise out of the constitution… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If you're not [Federico] Fellini you might make something very vulgar. Animation made it possible to maintain unity with all these different… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
For those whose goal it is to twist wrong into right, a good starting point is to convince young people that the… — Tammy Bruce 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
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
The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery. — Anonymous Copy Share Image