Vulgar Quotes - Page 13

• I should also mention that the Neue Galerie is piping music into the galleries where "Klee and America" is hanging, a practice for which vulgar is not even close to the word. Yes, I like Schumann's Carnaval, but I'm damned if I know why anybody thinks the paintings of Paul Klee profit from being viewed with Carnaval playing in the background.

  Terry Teachout

  Thinking, Practice, America

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• Spare me therefore, your good intentions, your inner sensitivities, your unarticulated and unexpressed love. And spare me also these tedious psycho-historians which, by exposing the goodness inside the bad man, and the evil in the good-invariably establish a vulgar and perverse egalitarianism, as if the arrangement of what is outside and what inside makes no moral difference.

  Willard Gaylin

  Men, Egalitarianism, Differences

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• I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority.

  Horace Walpole

  Air, Nations, Insolent

  Letter to Hannah More, 14 October 1787, in 'Letters'

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• Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises. 'Tis the vulgar great who come dizened with gold and jewels. Real kings hide away their crowns in their wardrobes, and affect a plain and poor exterior.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Real, Jewels

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.526, Harvard University Press

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• I have seen more men than usual, lately; and, well as I was acquainted with one, I am surprised to find what vulgar fellows they are.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Society, Usual

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.181, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.

  Willa Cather

  Details, Extravagance, Too Much

  Willa Cather, Marilee Lindemann (2008). “O Pioneers!”, p.173, Oxford University Press

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• In vulgar usage, progress has come to mean limitless movement in space and time, accompanied, necessarily, by an equally limitless command of energy: culminating in limitless destruction.

  Lewis Mumford

  Mean, Space, Progress

  Lewis Mumford (1974). “The Pentagon of Power”, Harcourt

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• Hot soup at table is very vulgar; it either leads to an unseemly mode of taking it, or keeps people waiting too long whilst it cools. Soup should be brought to table only moderately warm.

  Charlie Day

  Food, Long, People

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• Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sadness, Men, Simple

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.84, Graphic Arts Books

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• It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to bind the beholder. But true genius seeks to defend us from itself. True geniuswill not impoverish, but will liberate, and add new sense. If a wise man should appear in our village, he would create, in those who conversed with him, a new consciousness of wealth, by opening their eyes to unobserved advantages; he would establish a sense of immovable equality, calm us with assurances that we could not be cheated; as every one would discern the checks and guarantees of condition.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Wisdom, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1544, Delphi Classics

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• I read a lot of conservatives. They are thoughtful and intelligent and annoying, and I always read them because they have viewpoints that challenge my own, even thought they are wrong. But this does me no good because, being intelligent and sophisticated human beings, they are all contemptuous of Trump. They hate him. They find him...vulgar.

  Gene Weingarten

  Hate, Thoughtful, Intelligent

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I always found misogyny vulgar and stupid, and I found almost all the women I have known to be my betters. However, placing them so high, I used them more often than I served them. How does one make sense of this?

  Albert Camus

  Stupid, Men, Doe

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• There's moments that are very personal in The Divorce. There are moments that are sort of unwatchably vulgar or intimate or pathetic. I even had this conversation with my mom. My mom saw the pilot and she was like, "I just thought that some of it seemed nasty." I'm like, "Mom. You're from a whole different generation. And yeah. There's some nastiness that goes on."

  Thomas Haden Church

  Mom, Divorce, Different

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's the ultimate for me not to see how it's made. I find it vulgar when you can distinguish how something is made. I used to be a student at the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture in Paris, and once I got to go to a Saint Laurent couture show. Everyone was always talking about how fabulous the tailoring was, but I was transfixed by this one particular dress. It was just a piece of fabric, but as the model was walking, you didn't know how she got into it, how it closed, where the seams were, and that, for me, was perfection. It stayed with me as a lifelong vision.

  Tomas Maier

  Perfection, Vision, Saint

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I personally do not think that I have ever done, in my working life, anything vulgar. I know I've done provocative things.

  Polly Allen Mellen

  Thinking, Done, Provocative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think the reason for vulgarity is because of the freedom that there is now to do certain things, and a lack of sophistication on the part of some people who, in their work, like to give the impression of, "Has there been intercourse or not? Are they about to?" But they take it into a realm that has a vulgar touch to it.

  Polly Allen Mellen

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• While we have a very strong popular culture, the roots of American culture are very shallow, and we put emphasis on how a movie does as far as the box office goes. Many years ago, it would have been vulgar to print box - office grosses in the paper. Now The New York Times does it, and it's the big story for people interested in arts and entertainment on Monday. Which is why emphasis has shifted away from filmmakers and fallen on movie stars and business people.

  Willem Dafoe

  Art, Strong, Monday

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• The worship of Mammon may be vulgar or immoral, but it persists while other religions falter and disappear.

  Mason Cooley

  Money, Religion, May

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• Courage is the most common and vulgar of the virtues.

  Herman Melville

  Courage, Common, Virtue

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.1690, Delphi Classics

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• Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Modern, Speculation

  Marshall McLuhan (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy”, p.125, University of Toronto Press

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• Great statesmen seem to direct and rule by a sort of power to put themselves in the place of the nation over which they are set, and may thus be said to possess the souls of poets at the same time they display the coarser sense and the more vulgar sagacity of practical men of business.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Soul, Vision

  Woodrow Wilson, Howard Seavoy Leach (1970). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: Authorized Ed”

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• There is a vulgar persuasion, that the ignorance of women, by favoring their subordination, ensures their utility. 'Tis the same argument employed by the ruling few against the subject many in aristocracies; by the rich against the poor in democracies; by the learned professions against the people in all countries.

  Frances Wright

  Country, Ignorance, People

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures as delivered by Frances Wright: with three addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789. Second edition”, p.55

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• If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour, either with common and vulgar minds, or with uncommon and eminent ones: the former would not find enough in them, the latter would find too much; they might manage to live somewhere in the middle region.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Fall, Mind, Favour

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• Men should not labor foolishly like brutes, but the brain and the body should always, or as much as possible, work and rest together, and then the work will be of such a kind that when the body is hungry the brain will be hungry also, and the same food will suffice for both; otherwise the food which repairs the waste energy of the overwrought body will oppress the sedentary brain, and the degenerate scholar will come to esteem all food vulgar, and all getting a living drudgery.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Brain, Together

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• The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more vulgar companions.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Civilization, Lasts

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.49, Penguin

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