Vulgar Quotes

You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. (Aristophanes)
When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness. View quote
Lauren Bacall
There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation. View quote
John Ruskin
As long as war is looked upon as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked on as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind. View quote
Albert Camus
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine. View quote
Walter Scott
The study of the Bible will keep anyone from being vulgar in style. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action. View quote
Tennessee Williams
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. (Marcus Aurelius)
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. View quote
Alexander Pope
It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy. View quote
Margaret Fuller
One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar. View quote
Oscar Wilde
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability. View quote
Oscar Wilde
There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is. View quote
Roberto Cavalli
Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. View quote
Thomas Reid
The labouring poor, to use a vulgar expression, seem always to live from hand to mouth. Their present wants employ their whole whole attention, and they seldom think of the future. Even when they have an opportunity of saving they seldom exercise it, but all that is beyond their present neccessities goes, generally speaking, to the ale house. View quote
Thomas Malthus
The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar. (Niccolò Machiavelli)
Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts. View quote
François Arago
The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because the very becoming a Purist is commonly indicative of some slight degree of weakness, readiness to be offended, or narrowness of understanding of the ends of things. View quote
John Ruskin
I have often been amused by our vulgar tendency to take complex issues, with solutions at neither extreme of a continuum of possibilities, and break them into dichotomies, assigning one group to one pole and the other to an opposite end, with no acknowledgment of subtleties and intermediate positions-and nearly always with moral opprobrium attached to opponents. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor. View quote
Martin Sheen