Vulgar Quotes - Page 19

• The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease, and the manner of a gentleman has ease without freedom.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Gentleman, Ease

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• Vulgarism in language is the distinguishing characteristic of bad company, and a bad education. A man of fashion avoids nothing with more care than that. Proverbial expressions, and trite sayings, are the flowers of the rhetoric of vulgar man.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Fashion, Flower, Men

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.162, Oxford University Press

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• The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Laughter, People, Laughing

  Letter to his son, February 17, 1754.

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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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• 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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• Go on, fair Science; soon to thee
  Shall Nature yield her idle boast;
  Her vulgar lingers formed a tree,
  But thou hast trained it to a post.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Nature, Science, Yield

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• By salvation I mean not barely according to the vulgar notion deliverance from hell or going to heaven but a present deliverance from sin a restoration of the soul to its primitive health its original purity a recovery of the divine nature the renewal of our souls after the image of God in righteousness and true holiness in justice mercy and truth.

  John Wesley

  Recovery, Mean, Justice

  John Wesley (1827). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley”, p.219

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• Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Believe, Psychology, Greek

  "Strong Opinions" by Vladimir Nabokov, (p. 66), 1973.

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• Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.

  Voltaire

  Prejudice, Crowds

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• There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion!

  William Congreve

  Laughter, Passion, Men

  'The Double Dealer' (1694) act 1, sc. 4.

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• We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

  John Osborne

  Death, Dying, Too Much

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• If you're not [Federico] Fellini you might make something very vulgar. Animation made it possible to maintain unity with all these different narratives.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Unity, Narrative, Might

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The vulgar charge that the tendency of democracies is to leveling, meaning to drag all down to the level of the lowest, is singularly untrue; its real tendency being to elevate the depressed to a condition not unworthy of their manhood.

  James F. Cooper

  Real, Democracy, Levels

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• The conduct of a losing party never appears right: at least it never can possess the only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgements-success.

  Edmund Burke

  Party, Judgement, Losing

  'Letter to a Member of the National Assembly' (1791) p. 7

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• For example, in Paris, if one desires to buy something, you enter the store and say "Good morning, sir" or "madam," depending on what is appropriate, you wait until you are greeted, you make polite chitchat about the weather or some such, and when the salesperson asks what they can do for you, then and only then do you bring up the vulgar business of the transaction you require.

  Craig Ferguson

  Morning, Weather, Paris

  Craig Ferguson (2010). “Between the Bridge and the River: A Novel”, p.109, Chronicle Books

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• I find it vulgar that people are so fascinated by natural disasters, and we allow footage of young people that are looting because they have no choice because of natural disaster.

  Sasha Grey

  People, Choices, Natural

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• Everything has gotten vulgar and out of line for children to watch. It's more of a swearing match.

  Bubba Smith

  Children, Watches, Lines

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• Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Mean, Skills, Ill Will

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3108, Delphi Classics

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• Lynching is the method of vulgar men! He who is deprived of compassion is deprived of everything!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Compassion, Men, Lynching

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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