Vulgar Quotes - Page 7

• 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.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Forever, Missing, Literature

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.464

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• The vulgar and common esteem is seldom happy in hitting right; and I am much mistaken if, amongst the writings of my time, the worst are not those which have most gained the popular applause.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Writing, Hitting, Common

  Michel de Montaigne, George Savile Marquis of Halifax (1743). “Montaigne's Essays in Three Books: With Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator”, p.216

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• The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.

  Oscar Wilde

  Law, Practice, Sublime

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• Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Judging, Way, Opinion

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.150, Stanford University Press

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• It's vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.

  Gordon Ramsay

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• How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.

  Horace Walpole

  Littles, Circumstances, Historian

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• Thus you may multiply each stone 4 times & no more for they will then become oyles shining in ye dark and fit for magicall uses. You may ferment them with gold and silver, by keeping the stone and metal in fusion together for a day, & then project upon metalls. This is the multiplication of ye stone in vertue. To multiply it in weight ad to it of ye first Gold whether philosophic or vulgar.

  Isaac Newton

  Science, Dark, Shining

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• We counsel you, young men, not to pollute your minds with such degrading matter, for the mind through which this filth passes is never the same afterwards. Don't see R-rated movies or vulgar videos or participate in any entertainment that is immoral, suggestive, or pornographic. Don't listen to music that is degrading

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Men, Mind, Video

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant

  Thomas Carlyle

  Eye, Wonderful

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.259, Cambridge University Press

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• Wherever the appearance of a conventional aristocracy exists in America, it must arise from wealth, as it cannot from birth. An aristocracy of mere wealth is vulgar everywhere. In a republic, it is vulgar in the extreme.

  Harriet Martineau

  America, Republic, Aristocracy

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.117

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• I am edgy, raw, offensive, vulgar, untruthful, but intelligent. My jokes are always realistic. I do not make fun of children or people who cannot fight back. That is my limitation.

  Vir Das

  Children, Fun, Fighting

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• Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls have fallen by mistake; but the sense of a stupendous self and an insignificant world may have its consolations. Lydgate's discontent was much harder to bear; it was the sense that there was a grand existence in thought and effective action lying around him, while his self was being narrowed into the miserable isolation of egoistic fears, and vulgar anxieties for events that might allay such fears.

  George Eliot

  Lying, Mistake, Self

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.597, Xist Publishing

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• My erotic poetry is not poetry that uses vernacular words. It is a very erotic poetry, but I never use anything, for example, that is not in the dictionary. I don't like to be ugly, I seek out what is beautiful, and if my great search is for freedom and beauty, I can't be vulgar, ordinary.

  Maria Teresa Horta

  Beautiful, Ugly, Dictionary

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar.

  Steven Morrissey

  Son, Heirs, Shyness

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• A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose chief merit is the art of keeping himself in place.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Art, War, Liberty

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2008). “A Vindication of the Rights of Women”, p.152, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Miss Erstwhile: “It is such a relief, Mr. Nobley, to already know that you find this exercise vulgar and your partner unworthy. It saves us the idle chitchat.” Mr. Nobley: “And yet you chat away.

  Shannon Hale

  Exercise, Missing, Relief

  Shannon Hale (2007). “Austenland: A Novel”, Bloomsbury USA

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• We have created not a Brave New World, but a vulgar marketplace, where human attributes come with a price tag.

  Linda Chavez

  Peace, Brave New World, Price Tag

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• So if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless. It is said, those who lose themselves in their desire for things also lose their innate nature by being vulgar.

  Zhuangzi

  Happiness, Letting Go, Loss

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• It is not just the vulgar, premature bawdiness of pro-war triumphalists which I find revolting. It is that they accuse anti-war people of being uncaring about the people of Iraq, and the lack of concern that these proponents of war show for the bodies of the killed and those maimed and injured by their invasion.

  Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

  War, Iraq, People

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• The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Lying, Teaching, Practice

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• Within the Nazi Party, the beginnings of a personality cult around Hitler go back to the year before the [Munich] putsch... Outside these small groups of fanatical Bavarian Nazis, Hitler's image and reputation at this time - so far as the wider German public took any notice of him at all - was little more than that of a vulgar demagogue, capable of drumming up passionate opposition to the government among the Munich mob, but of little else.

  Ian Kershaw

  Party, Government, Years

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• There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the ecstasy of ear-splitting noise, ecstasy in the soccer stadium.

  Milan Kundera

  Soccer, Football, Everyday

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• When I say that a good picture has surprise quality or shock appeal, I do not mean that it is a loud or vulgar picture but, instead, that it stimulates my thinking and intrigues me.

  Alexey Brodovitch

  Photography, Mean, Thinking

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• Inasmuch as it is manifest from experience that if the Holy Bible, translated into the vulgar tongue, be indiscriminately allowed to every one, the rashness of men will cause more evil than good to arise from it . . .

  Pope Pius IV

  Men, Evil, Tongue

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• I would still have old ladies come up to me after the show and pat me on the cheek after I had said all this vulgar stuff. They would be like, 'Oh you're a silly boy - we know you're just playing.

  Dane Cook

  Silly, Boys, Would Be

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