Vulgar Quotes

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise.

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.

He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.

A cat is never vulgar.

Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.

Fly not yet; 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sons of night And maids who love the moon.

A gentleman is calm and spacious: the vulgar are always fretting.

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at least;Cocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast.

Those who are addicted to the phrase "to use a vulgarism" expect to achieve the feat of being at once vulgar and superior to vulgarity.

The rest were vulgar deaths unknown to fame.

I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority.

The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.

The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million.

He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action.

I am of the level with common Astrologers; who, with an old paltry cant, and a few pot-hooks for planets to amuse the vulgar, have too long been suffered to abuse the world.

It is only the vulgar who are always fancying themselves insulted. If a man treads on another's toe in good society, do you think it is taken as an insult?

The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh.

Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation.

A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose chief merit is the art of keeping himself in place.

Romantics consider common sense vulgar.

Lynching is the method of vulgar men! He who is deprived of compassion is deprived of everything!

They say it figures MTV would do such a vulgar, awful, horrible show and they completely miss that it's satirizing the people who watch MTV.

The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar.

There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar.

By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.

My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression

It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.

Paris strikes the vulgar part of us infinitely the most, but to a thinking mind London is incomparably the most delightful subject for contemplation.

Rage is essentially vulgar.

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.

I find it vulgar that people are so fascinated by natural disasters, and we allow footage of young people that are looting because they have no choice because of natural disaster.

The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American.

Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the good how far,-but far above the great.

I think the whole aspect of social networking is vulgar and repulsive in a lot of ways.

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.

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.

Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it's followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public.

Life should be a constant vision of God's presence. Here is our defense against being led away by the gauds and shows of earth's vulgar attractions.

Everything has gotten vulgar and out of line for children to watch. It's more of a swearing match.

Gentlemen cherish worth; the vulgar cherish dirt. Gentlemen trust in justice; the vulgar trust in favor.

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

Rather be frumpy than vulgar! Much. Frumps are often celebrities in disguise -- but a person of vulgar appearance is vulgar all through.

Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.

How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.

There are tonalities which are noble and others which are vulgar, harmonies which are calm or consoling, and others which are exciting because of their boldness.

Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar.

The workforce in Latin America was treated as a vulgar instrument for capital accumulation.