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Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral. — Robert L. Millet
A man is crazy who writes a secret in any other way than one which will conceal it from the vulgar. — Roger Bacon
Though essaying but a sportive sail, I was driven from my course by a blast re sistless; and ill-provided, young, and bowed by the brunt… — Herman Melville
It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the… — Samuel R. Delany
The Italian landscape has always harmonized the vulgar and the Vitruvian: the contorni around the duomo, the portiere'S laundry across the padrone's portone, Supercortemaggiore against… — Robert Venturi
Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey… — Samuel Johnson
When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a… — W. Somerset Maugham
Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized… — George Gilder
Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius. — Jorge Luis Borges
From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. — Alexander Pope
At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility with a comb-over.… — David Foster Wallace
English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and sincere, one undignified… — Cyril Connolly
The undressed is vulgar; the nude is pure, and the well-dressed tainted. — Robert Green Ingersoll
A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it… — Socrates
Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity. — Max Weber
The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality. — Oscar Wilde
The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of… — Leon Trotsky
Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form or… — Samuel Johnson
Political action involves mental vulgarity, not merely because it entails the occurrence and support of those who are mentally vulgar, but because of the simplification… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar. — Samuel Griswold Goodrich
But a dandy can never be a vulgar man — Charles Baudelaire
To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' --- that was the worst thing. — Alan Hollinghurst
I’ve never been very keen on women who hang their sex round their neck like baubles. I think it should be discovered. It’s more interesting… — Alfred Hitchcock
On one side you have book burners, Congressional wives and Pat Robertson. On the other side, you have vulgar comedians, foul-mouthed rap groups and Dennis… — Sandra Bernhard
People confuse vulgar and naked with sexiness. You want the mystery! — Carolina Herrera

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