Vulgar Quotes
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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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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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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.
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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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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 about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.
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The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.
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Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.
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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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A cat is never vulgar.
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It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
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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 vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.
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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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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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Without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless.
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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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Whoever is ignorant is vulgar.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
