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A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success, and is based… — Leo Strauss
For those whose goal it is to twist wrong into right, a good starting point is to convince young people that the vulgar is beautiful. — Tammy Bruce
I would never, ever do anything as vulgar as having fun. — Steven Morrissey
Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at least;Cocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
MUMMY, n. - an ancient Egyptian handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals. — Ambrose Bierce
The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important. — William Ralph Inge
No music is vulgar, unless it is played in a way that makes it so. — Herbert von Karajan
I wanted to make a film about stupid people that was very vulgar and deeply stupid. From that moment on I can hardly be reproached… — Claude Chabrol
The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. — Stephen Fry
Authors of so-called 'literary' fiction insist that action, like plot, is vulgar and unworthy of a true artist. Don't pay any attention to misguided advice… — Dean Koontz
Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it… — Molly Ivins
The generation that followed did not have the same concerns; none of its members attempted to follow the example of the past generation. There was… — Cheikh Anta Diop
This is my only and permanent complaint, that vulgar people, empty of the Spirit of God, want to judge solely by their human thinking what… — Meister Eckhart
Being an art buyer these days is comprehensively and indisputably vulgar. It is the sport of the Eurotrashy, Hedge-fundy, Hamptonites; of trendy oligarchs and oiligarchs;… — Charles Saatchi
We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd. — Jean-Henri Fabre
For goodness sakes, beware of curls… It is a great art to do them so that the girls not only look modern - but do… — Diana Vreeland
The Sentence has no end. Sometimes I think it had no beginning. Now I salute its authors, which means all of us. You have made… — Douglas Davis
Semi-Tough pokes fun in rambling fashion, but it is vulgar in intelligent ways and almost always amusing in its perceptions of befuddled people who are… — Vincent Canby
Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the mysterious terrors of… — Carol Muske-Dukes
Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar. — Benjamin Franklin
I have heard him [William Harvey] say, that after his Booke of the Circulation of the Blood came-out, that he fell mightily in his Practize,… — John Aubrey
The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand. — William Hazlitt
In turning away from beauty, we turn away from all that is wholesome and true, and deliver ourselves into an exile where the vulgar and… — John O'Donohue
I didn't like the '80s at all; it was a vulgar moment of fashion. — Valentino Garavani
So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould. — Edmund Waller

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