Vulgar Quotes
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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
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The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.
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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.
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Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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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.
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It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
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A cat is never vulgar.
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So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
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It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression.
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The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.
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It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.
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The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.
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I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.
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The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.
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By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.
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One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
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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.
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It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.
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A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct it, and if you put him out of his road he is at a stand. Whereas he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously about figure, force, and motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub. (from a letter dated 25 May, 1694)
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Every thread of creation is held in position by still other strands of things living. In an earthly tapestry hung from the skyline of smoldering cities so gray and so vulgar, as not to be satisfied with their own negativity, but needing to touch all the living as well.
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A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.
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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
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Spare me therefore, your good intentions, your inner sensitivities, your unarticulated and unexpressed love. And spare me also these tedious psycho-historians which, by exposing the goodness inside the bad man, and the evil in the good-invariably establish a vulgar and perverse egalitarianism, as if the arrangement of what is outside and what inside makes no moral difference.
