Best Vulgar Quotes
327 Vulgar quotes by 242 unique authors
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All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether there be any…
— Jonathan Swift
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Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend.
— Samuel Johnson
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If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can't be moral, at least we can avoid being vulgar.
— Unknown Author
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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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A cat is never vulgar.
— Carl Van Vechten
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As for our pupils talk, let his virtue and his sense of right and wrong shine through it and have no guide but reason. Make…
— Michel de Montaigne
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So if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless. It is said,…
— Zhuangzi
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We reduce the deity to vulgar fractions. We place our own little ambitions and label them ?divine messages?. With our short sight we affect to…
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
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The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery.
— Leo Tolstoy
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Within the Nazi Party, the beginnings of a personality cult around Hitler go back to the year before the [Munich] putsch... Outside these small groups…
— Ian Kershaw
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There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the ecstasy of ear-splitting…
— Milan Kundera
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When I say that a good picture has surprise quality or shock appeal, I do not mean that it is a loud or vulgar picture…
— Alexey Brodovitch
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Inasmuch as it is manifest from experience that if the Holy Bible, translated into the vulgar tongue, be indiscriminately allowed to every one, the rashness…
— Pope Pius IV
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Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor, which privileges the…
— Noam Chomsky
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It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more…
— E. M. Forster
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There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the soul raised above…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter.…
— Mark Twain
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The world was a cruder, more vulgar place than the one I had known. This was the language required to live in it, I supposed.
— Alice McDermott
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I know I'm vulgar, but would you have me any other way?
— Elizabeth Taylor
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I'm loud and I'm vulgar, and I wear the pants in the house because somebody's got to, but I am not a monster. I'm not.
— Elizabeth Taylor
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Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their representative American, someone…
— Christopher Hitchens
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There is no other city as vulgar and obscene as Osaka. We should celebrate the image and welcome the development of casinos and red-light districts…
— Toru Hashimoto
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