Vulgar Quotes
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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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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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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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Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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People are getting attention for doing nothing, for behaving poorly, for abusing themselves in public and being abused, exploiting themselves. I find it vulgar and I find it awful.
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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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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.
