Vulgar Quotes - Page 6

• There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

  Walter Scott

  Historical, Doubt, Religion

  Walter Scott (2016). “The Fair Mad of Perth”, p.11, Walter Scott

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• Many women, particularly young women, have claimed the right to use the most explicit sex terms, including extremely vulgar ones, in public as well as private. But it is men, far more than women, who have been liberated by this change. For now that women use these terms, men no longer need to watch their own language in the presence of women. But is this a gain for women?

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Women, Watches

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• Nothing is more horrible than my self in the mirror of hysteria. Nothing is more vulgar than my style in the hands of another. Toimitate me is to punish me.

  Karl Kraus

  Mirrors, Self, Hands

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.

  Hu Shih

  Writing, July, America

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• If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

  Roger Ebert

  Teenager, Mean, Hollywood

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• Romantics consider common sense vulgar.

  Mason Cooley

  Common Sense, Literature, Common

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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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• I don't do any vulgar movements.

  Elvis Presley

  Movement

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• just as violence is the last refuge of the inarticulate, so it is also the first resort of the incompetent, the easy out for the man who is capable of expressing himself only in the most primitive and vulgar of dramatic terms. He leaves us with only the obscenity of violence per se - and the pornographer thereof will always be with us, in film as in any other medium. And so will his audience.

  Judith Crist

  Men, Lasts, Violence

  Judith Crist (1968). “The private eye, the cowboy, and the very naked girl: movies from Cleo to Clyde”

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• I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation.

  Jenny Eclair

  Thinking, Ostentation, Display

  "This much I know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2008.

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• Fact is based upon vulgar matter.

  Charles Olson

  Matter, Facts

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• Those who are addicted to the phrase "to use a vulgarism" expect to achieve the feat of being at once vulgar and superior to vulgarity.

  Henry Watson Fowler

  Phrases, Use, Achieve

  Henry Watson Fowler (1994). “A Dictionary of Modern English Usage”, p.352, Wordsworth Editions

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• Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a display that is less an evidence of grief than a vulgar travesty of those pompous obsequies where no grief is.

  Joyce Cary

  Grief, Funeral, Earth

  Joyce Cary (1985). “Except the Lord”, p.39, New Directions Publishing

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• The leader, mingling with the vulgar host, Is in the common mass of matter lost.

  Homer

  Leadership, Matter, Common

  Homer (1805). “The Odyssey of Homer. Translated from the Greek by Alexander Pope, etc”, p.88

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• It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.

  Roger Ebert

  Genius, Succeed, Certain

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• I hate vulgarity. I hate vulgarity even though it attracts me - and it attracts me very much. I love all that is transgressive or vulgar. But in my opinion, it has to reach a limit that is always a little surreal and never becomes in your face.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Hate, Opinion, Your Face

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one nor the other.

  Epictetus

  Philosophy, Men, Novices

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• Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.

  Diana Vreeland

  Class, Dull, Boring

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• I have always refused to do something that has offended me. I have been offered potential roles that are totally vulgar.

  Christopher Walken

  Roles, Has Beens, Offended

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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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• 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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• Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Style, Study, Intense

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the table talk of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.177

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• My Heart I'm not going to cry all the time nor shall I laugh all the time, I don't prefer one "strain" to another. I'd have the immediacy of a bad movie, not just a sleeper, but also the big, overproduced first-run kind. I want to be at least as alive as the vulgar. And if some aficionado of my mess says "That's not like Frank!," all to the good! I don't wear brown and grey suits all the time, do I? No. I wear workshirts to the opera, often. I want my feet to be bare, I want my face to be shaven, and my heart--you can't plan on the heart, but the better part of it, my poetry, is open.

  Frank O'Hara

  Running, Heart, Feet

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.231, Univ of California Press

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• A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy.

  Thomas Reid

  Philosophy, Errors, Doubt

  Thomas Reid, William Hamilton, Harry M. Bracken, Thomas Reid, Sir William Hamilton (1967). “Philosophical Works”, p.224, Georg Olms Verlag

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• I don't feel any vulgar gratitude to you[for helping me]. I almost feel as if You ought to be grateful to ME, for giving you the opportunity of enjoying the luxury of generosity. . . I may have come into the world expressly for the purpose of increasing your stock of happiness. I may have been born to be a benefactor to you, by giving you an opportunity of assisting me.

  Charles Dickens

  Gratitude, Grateful, Opportunity

  Charles Dickens (2006). “Bleak House: Easyread Edition”, p.108, ReadHowYouWant.com

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