The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I didn't like the '80s at all; it was a vulgar moment of fashion. — Valentino Garavani Copy Share Image
It is disgusting to pick your teeth; what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“I would sooner a writer were vulgar than mincing; for life is vulgar, and it is life he seeks.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Openness, as currently conceived, is a way of making surrender to whatever is most powerful, or worship of vulgar success, look principled. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Conservatism, being an upper-class characteristic, is decorous; and conversely, innovation, being a lower-class phenomenon, is vulgar. ...Innovation is bad form. — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' --- that was… — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
A vulgar man is captious and jealous; eager and impetuous about trifles. He suspects himself to be slighted, and thinks everything that… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
We counsel you, young men, not to pollute your minds with such degrading matter, for the mind through which this filth passes… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Vulgarism in language is the distinguishing characteristic of bad company, and a bad education. A man of fashion avoids nothing with more… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I always found misogyny vulgar and stupid, and I found almost all the women I have known to be my betters. However,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is quite a common and vulgar thing among humans to understand, foresee, know and predict the troubles of others. But oh… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is… — Plato Copy Share Image
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Among the innumerable mortifications which waylay human arrogance on every side may well be reckoned our ignorance of the most common objects… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The consolations of the vulgar are bitter in the royal ear. Let physicians and confectioners and servants in the great houses be… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Thus you may multiply each stone 4 times & no more for they will then become oyles shining in ye dark and… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“Sorry, I didn’t know that you had a vagina, I’ll refrain from using vulgar words for now on. How about it smells… — Katelin LaMontagne Copy Share Image
A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants… The large and rapid fortunes… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Within the Nazi Party, the beginnings of a personality cult around Hitler go back to the year before the [Munich] putsch... Outside… — Ian Kershaw Copy Share Image
Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A party spirit betrays the greatest men to act as meanly as the vulgar herd. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the good how far,-but far above the great. — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image