Vulgar Quotes

327 quotes by 242 authors

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. — Aristophanes
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
It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially. — Lauren Bacall
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
I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit. — Lucien Bouchard
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
The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind. — Albert Camus
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
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
The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth. — Emile M. Cioran
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. — Henri Frederic Amiel
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
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
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
I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite. — Jonathan Swift
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
Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men. — Arthur Schopenhauer
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
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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