Fellows Quote by Henry David Thoreau

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody…

— Solomon Schechter

I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people…

— Imogen Poots

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.

— William Hazlitt

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to…

— Havelock Ellis

There's a particularly nasty element when lots of men get together sometimes.

— Emily Thornberry

I think the reason for vulgarity is because of the freedom that there is now to do certain things, and a lack of sophistication…

— Polly Allen Mellen

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

— Mark Twain

I've never gone anywhere where the men have come up to my infantile expectations. I always have gone through life constantly being surprised by…

— Rebecca West

I always thought there were two kinds of males in the world: the ones who look good naked and the ones who look funny…

— David Hewlett

I see and hear daily that you of the Clergy preach one against another, teach one contrary to another, inveigh one against another without…

— Henry VIII of England