Vulgar Quotes - Page 2

• I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

  Tennessee Williams

  Light, Rude, Naked

  Tennessee Williams (2004). “A Streetcar Named Desire”, p.60, New Directions Publishing

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• Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it.

  Henry Beston

  Night, Banishment, Reverence

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

  Emile M. Cioran

  Quests, Deceived, Versions

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• 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.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Light, Water, Democracy

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.244, Cambridge University Press

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• The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success.

  Edmund Burke

  Success, Mind, Criteria

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• A cat is never vulgar.

  Carl Van Vechten

  Cat

  Carl Van Vechten (1996). “The Tiger in the House”, p.177, Courier Corporation

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• I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

  Orson Welles

  Money, Thinking, Sake

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Cynical, Haste

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• Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Happiness, Laughter, Wine

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"

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• The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Father, Mean, Son

  The Great Gatsby ch. 6 (1925)

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• Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Beautiful, Animal, Men

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• A man of fashion never has recourse to proverbs, and vulgar aphorisms; uses neither favourite words nor hard words, but takes great care to speak very correctly and grammatically, and to pronounce properly; that is, according to the usage of the best companies.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Fashion, Men, Use

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.163, Oxford University Press

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• A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

  Socrates

  Emotional, Sound, Ethics

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• A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Ambition, Mean

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• The vulgar look upon a man, who is reckoned a fine speaker, as a phenomenon, a supernatural being, and endowed with some peculiargift of Heaven; they stare at him, if he walks in the park, and cry, that is he. You will, I am sure, view him in a juster light, and nulla formidine. You will consider him only as a man of good sense, who adorns common thoughts with the graces of elocution, and the elegancy of style. The miracle will then cease.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Supernatural Beings, Light

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• Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor.

  Martin Sheen

  Humor, Golf, Boys

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. July 1, 2003.

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• One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

  Oscar Wilde

  Past, Details, Remember

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.65, Mondial

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• It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Real, Achieve, Refinement

  Lawrence Durrell, Earl G. Ingersoll (1998). “Lawrence Durrell: Conversations”, p.35, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Race, People

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.481

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• Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Vulgarity Is, Satin, Obvious

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• If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can't be moral, at least we can avoid being vulgar.

  Langdon Elwyn Mitchell

  Ethics, Morality, Endeavor

  Langdon Elwyn Mitchell (1908). “The New York idea: a comedy in four acts”

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• To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

  Alexander Pope

  Block, Vulgarity Is, Razors

  'Miscellanies' (1727) vol. 2 'Thoughts on Various Subjects'

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• There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

  Mark Twain

  Vulgarity Is, People, Refined

  Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

  Mel Brooks

  Psychics, Vulgarity Is, Bullshit

  "Mel Brooks Honored With AFI Life Achievement Award" by Gregg Kilday, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 7, 2013.

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• Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Truth, Materialism

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