Vulgar Quotes - Page 10

• If there is one notion I hate more than another, it is that of marriage - I mean marriage in the vulgar, weak sense, as a mere matter of sentiment.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Hate, Mean, Matter

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Shirley: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.31, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Creativity, Reality

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.133, Vintage

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• Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Beautiful, Children, Imbeciles

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

  Gordon Ramsay

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• When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle and spiritual idea.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Spiritual, Humor, Ideas

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

  Carroll O'Connor

  Running, Business, People

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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.

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Class, Easy

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.191, Courier Corporation

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• Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Kings, Power, Dust

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.10

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• The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor, which privileges the rights of investors and lenders, those of people being incidental. In accord with this usage, those who favor a different form of international integration, which privileges the rights of human beings, become "anti-globalist."

  Noam Chomsky

  Rights, People, Favors

  Interview with Sniježana Matejčić, June 2005.

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• I am not used to doing naked shoots but when you trust the photographer and the crew, you know it won't be vulgar.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Naked, Photographer, Used

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• Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts.

  Francois Arago

  Eye, Science, Genius

  François Arago (1859). “Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men: The history of my youth, an autobiography of Francis Arago.Bailly.Herschel.Laplace.Joseph Fourier.-ser. 2 Carnot.Malus.Fresnel.Thomas Young.James Watt”, p.412

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• Frugality is for the vulgar.

  Francois Rabelais

  Frugality

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• There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.

  Moliere

  Fate, Artist, Ignorant

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• The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Jealousy, Betrayal, Creativity

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.97, Cambridge University Press

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• Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Giving, Tongue

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• An habitation giddy and unsure Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, People, Giddy

  William Shakespeare, Mrs. Elizabeth MONTAGU (1772). “An Essay on the writings and genius of Shakespeare. By Mrs. Montagu. ... Second edition”, p.61

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• Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the advertisements; by which means we often see an apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an ambassador.

  Joseph Addison

  Running, Ambition, Mean

  Joseph Addison (1811). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.400

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• Openness, as currently conceived, is a way of making surrender to whatever is most powerful, or worship of vulgar success, look principled.

  Allan Bloom

  Powerful, Looks, Way

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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