Vulgar Quotes
327 quotes by 242 authors
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
— Aristophanes
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The…
— Marcus Aurelius
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It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially.
— Lauren Bacall
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When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely…
— Lauren Bacall
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I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit.
— Lucien Bouchard
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I didn't cry when I left free-booting, smash-and-grab papers that would have appeared to be far more natural homes for me and, at the risk…
— Julie Burchill
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The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
— Albert Camus
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There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand…
— Roberto Cavalli
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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss,…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no…
— Epictetus
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A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose chief merit is…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.
— Jonathan Swift
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Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a…
— Willa Cather
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Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it…
— William Hazlitt
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Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste, as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities of the vulgar.
— Thorstein Veblen
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