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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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• 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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• Though essaying but a sportive sail, I was driven from my course by a blast re sistless; and ill-provided, young, and bowed by the brunt of things before my prime, still fly before the gale. ... If after all these fearful fainting trances, the verdict be, the golden haven was not gained; yet in bold quest thereof, better to sink in boundless deeps than float on vulgar shoals; and give me, ye gods, an utter wreck, if wreck I do.

  Herman Melville

  Giving, Quests, Wrecks

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.4644, Delphi Classics

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• The Italian landscape has always harmonized the vulgar and the Vitruvian: the contorni around the duomo, the portiere'S laundry across the padrone's portone, Supercortemaggiore against the Romanesque apse. Naked children have never played in our fountains, and I. M. Pei will never be happy on Route 66.

  Robert Venturi

  Children, Italian, Naked

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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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• 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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• No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his own cider or found claret better for his health. But I do most emphatically scorn and scout the vulgar refinement that regards beer as something unseemly and humiliating. And I would shout the name of beer a hundred times a day, to shock all the snobs who have so shameful a sense of shame.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Beer, Names, Cider

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• Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity.

  Max Weber

  Reality, Vanity, Enemy

  Max Weber (2013). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.116, Routledge

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• The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Reality, Creative

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• The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of eternal motion.

  Leon Trotsky

  Lying, Reality, Wish

  Leon Trotsky, Joseph Hansen, George Edward Novack, James Burnham (1965). “In Defense of Marxism: Against the Petty-bourgeois Opposition”

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• Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form or told their use.

  Samuel Johnson

  Knowledge, Mind, Arrogance

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• Political action involves mental vulgarity, not merely because it entails the occurrence and support of those who are mentally vulgar, but because of the simplification of human life implied in even the best of it purposes.

  Michael Joseph Oakeshott

  Support, Political, Purpose

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• Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar.

  Samuel Griswold Goodrich

  Abuse, Domestic Violence, Weapons

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• But a dandy can never be a vulgar man

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Dandy

  Charles Baudelaire (1972). “Selected writings on art and artists [of] Beaudelaire”, Penguin Books

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• To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' --- that was the worst thing.

  Alan Hollinghurst

  Apologizing, Boring, Worst

  Alan Hollinghurst (2014). “The Line of Beauty: Picador Classic”, p.124, Pan Macmillan

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• On one side you have book burners, Congressional wives and Pat Robertson. On the other side, you have vulgar comedians, foul-mouthed rap groups and Dennis Hopper—all your choices should be so easy.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Rap, Book, Wife

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• As well as being a vulgar producer of her own spectacle, and an embarrassment to her family, Cindy Sheehan is at best a shifty fantasist.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Embarrassment, Producers, Wells

  "What Cindy Sheehan Really Wants" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. August 19, 2005.

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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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• For those whose goal it is to twist wrong into right, a good starting point is to convince young people that the vulgar is beautiful.

  Tammy Bruce

  Beautiful, People, Goal

  Tammy Bruce (2004). “The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values”, p.55, Crown Forum

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• I would never, ever do anything as vulgar as having fun.

  Steven Morrissey

  Fun, Having Fun

  "Look back in angst" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2002.

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• Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at least;Cocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Gentleman, Tea, Coward

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “The Song Of Right And Wrong”

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• MUMMY, n. - an ancient Egyptian handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Men, Animal, Museums

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.148, 谷月社

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• The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.

  William Ralph Inge

  Mistake, Mind, Important

  William Ralph Inge (1932). “More Lay Thoughts of a Dean”

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• I wanted to make a film about stupid people that was very vulgar and deeply stupid. From that moment on I can hardly be reproached for making a film that is about stupid people.

  Claude Chabrol

  Stupid, People, Film

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• The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane.

  Stephen Fry

  London, Sacred, Royal

  Stephen Fry (2006). “The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within”, p.551, Penguin

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