Vulgar quotes
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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 -
The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
-- Alexander Pope -
The world was a cruder, more vulgar place than the one I had known. This was the language required to live in it, I supposed.
-- Alice McDermott -
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
-- Ben Jonson -
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A cat is never vulgar.
-- Carl Van Vechten -
But a dandy can never be a vulgar man
-- Charles Baudelaire -
Fact is based upon vulgar matter.
-- Charles Olson -
A gentleman considers what is right; the vulgar consider what will pay.
-- Confucius -
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Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.
-- Diana Vreeland -
So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
-- Edmund Waller -
I know I'm vulgar, but would you have me any other way?
-- Elizabeth Taylor -
Rather be frumpy than vulgar! Much. Frumps are often celebrities in disguise -- but a person of vulgar appearance is vulgar all through.
-- Emily Post -
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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 concerns.
-- George Gilder -
It's vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.
-- Gordon Ramsay -
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it.
-- Henry Beston -
No music is vulgar, unless it is played in a way that makes it so.
-- Herbert von Karajan -
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The rest were vulgar deaths unknown to fame.
-- Homer -
How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.
-- Horace Walpole -
Everyone experiences bouts of jealousy; but the dignified person conceals it, while the vulgar one acts upon it
-- Ibn Taymiyyah -
We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.
-- Jean-Henri Fabre -
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I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation.
-- Jenny Eclair -
The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater -
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, and that 'twas beleeved by the vulgar that he was crack-brained.
-- John Aubrey -
The hedges are spruting like chicks from the eggs when they are newly hatched or as the vulgar says clacked.
-- Marjorie Fleming -
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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 remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all.
-- Mary MacLane -
Sir, I have seen your film and it is vulgar! Madame, my film rises below vulgarity.
-- Mel Brooks -
Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar.
-- Mignon McLaughlin -
No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.
-- Oscar Wilde -
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Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.
-- Samuel Beckett -
The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American.
-- Stan Brakhage -
The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.
-- Tanith Lee -
Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the good how far,-but far above the great.
-- Thomas Gray -
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I didn't like the '80s at all; it was a vulgar moment of fashion.
-- Valentino Garavani -
My erotic poetry is not poetry that uses vernacular words. It is a very erotic poetry, but I never use anything, for example, that is not in the dictionary. I don't like to be ugly, I seek out what is beautiful, and if my great search is for freedom and beauty, I can't be vulgar, ordinary.
-- Maria Teresa Horta -
I like the trivial, vulgar and exalted.
-- J. V. Cunningham
