Quotes of: Vulgarity Keyword

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

John Ruskin

On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.

Hu Shih

I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation.

Jenny Eclair

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

Aristophanes

You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words.

Pablo Picasso

Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.

Carroll O'Connor

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Oscar Wilde

It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially.

Lauren Bacall

We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.

Jean Henri Fabre

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

Walter Scott

Men like to imagine and think vulgar thoughts, but present them with boldness and they run scared.

Penelope

Religion realizes philosophy by adapting it to the weaknesses of the vulgar....

Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In terms of being vulgar, I don't think you need to be violent unless it's slapstick, violence to yourself. That can be funny - we've all tripped and fallen on our faces.

Andy Dick

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

William Ralph Inge

I have always refused to do something that has offended me. I have been offered potential roles that are totally vulgar.

Christopher Walken

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.

Margaret Fuller

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.

Alistair Cooke

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

Stendhal

It is always a vulgar and often an unhealthy pastime, and it is a vice which does not go alone; the man who gambles will find himself capable of any evil.

Jules Verne

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.

The Remarkable Rocket