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Frugality is for the vulgar. — Francois Rabelais
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the… — Moliere
The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar. — William Shakespeare
An habitation giddy and unsure Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart. — William Shakespeare
Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big… — Joseph Addison
There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined. — Mark Twain
Openness, as currently conceived, is a way of making surrender to whatever is most powerful, or worship of vulgar success, look principled. — Allan Bloom
It is disgusting to pick your teeth; what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick. — Louis Kronenberger
Many women, particularly young women, have claimed the right to use the most explicit sex terms, including extremely vulgar ones, in public as well as… — Margaret Mead
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every… — John Ruskin
No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his own cider or… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. — Charles Caleb Colton
The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness. — Ovid
Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to… — Lord Chesterfield
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. — Alexander Pope
Political poetry is more profoundly emotional than any other-at least as much as love poetry-and cannot be forced because then it becomes vulgar and unacceptable.… — Pablo Neruda
We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise. — Walter Savage Landor
One's worst enormities remain within, and it is only one's vulgar commonplaces of error and folly that turn into murders and suicides, treasons, infidelities, and… — Lewis Mumford
It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius. — Roger Ebert
Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new… — Northrop Frye
Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even… — Mary MacLane
I believe I understand anti-Semitism which is a very complex movement. I see it as a Jew, but without hatred or fear. I recognize what… — Theodor Herzl
But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A disposition,… — Edmund Burke
The leader, mingling with the vulgar host, Is in the common mass of matter lost. — Homer

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