Vulgar Quotes

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  Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confidence, Dream, Mistake

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.206, Harvard University Press

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Sarcastic, Political, Opinion

  "Stories for Young People".

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• The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

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  Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Courage, Thinking

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• Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.

  Cyril Connolly

  Vulgarity Is, Literature, Salad

  "The Condemned Playground". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1945.

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• No crime is vulgar,
  but all vulgarity is crime.

  Oscar Wilde

  Vulgarity Is, Crime, Vulgarity

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.114, Courier Corporation

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• Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Anger

  Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.16, New Line Publishing

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• The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Vulgarity Is, Class

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• It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

  E. M. Forster

  Mind, Vices, Literature

  E.M. Forster (2015). “Howard's End”, p.28, Xist Publishing

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• 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

  Independent, Errors, And Love

  Margaret Fuller, Margaret F. Ossoli (2008). “Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.195, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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• Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

  E. M. Forster

  Vulgarity Is, Revealing Something, Literature

  'The Longest Journey' (1907) ch. 26

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• True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Courage, Hero, Bravery

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• Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

  Oscar Wilde

  Vulgarity Is, People, Ideal Husband

  Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.212, Oxford Paperbacks

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• The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.

  Ovid

  Crowds, Usefulness, Values

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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Truth, Materialism

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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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• Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Vulgarity Is, Satin, Obvious

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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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• Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause.

  Rudolf Bing

  Expression, Vulgarity Is, Way

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• There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is.

  Roberto Cavalli

  Sexy, Real, Vulgarity Is

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• Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel -- it's vulgar.

  Molly Ivins

  Powerful, Weapons, Satire

  "The Mouth of Texas". People Weekly, December 9, 1991.

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

  Alistair Cooke

  Years, Two, Enthusiasm

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