Vulgar Quotes - Page 8

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

  Jeanne Moreau

  Beautiful, Children, Imbeciles

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• Being an art buyer these days is comprehensively and indisputably vulgar. It is the sport of the Eurotrashy, Hedge-fundy, Hamptonites; of trendy oligarchs and oiligarchs; and of art dealers with masturbatory levels of self-regard.

  Charles Saatchi

  Sports, Art, Self

  "Charles Saatchi: the hideousness of the art world" by Charles Saatchi, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2011.

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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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• The Sentence has no end. Sometimes I think it had no beginning. Now I salute its authors, which means all of us. You have made a wild, precious, awful, delicious, lovable, tragic, vulgar, fearsome, divine thing.

  Douglas Davis

  Mean, Thinking, Awful

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• Eloquence, when at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection; but addressing itself entirely to the fancy or the affections, captivates the willing hearers, and subdues their understanding. Happily, this pitch it seldom attains. But what a Tully or a Demosthenes could scarcely effect over a Roman or Athenian audience, every Capuchin, every itinerant or stationary teacher can perform over the generality of mankind, and in a higher degree, by touching such gross and vulgar passions.

  David Hume

  Teacher, Passion, Reflection

  David Hume (2012). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”, p.127, tredition

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• The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.

  Aristophanes

  God, Simple, Expression

  Aristophanes, William Arrowsmith (1962). “The clouds: Translated by William Arrowsmith, with sketches by Thomas McClure”

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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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• Reverence is an ennobling sentiment; it is felt to be degrading only by the vulgar mind, which would escape the sense of its own littleness by elevating itself into an antagonist of what is above it. He that has no pleasure in looking up is not fit so much as to look down. Of such minds are mannerists in Art; in the world, tyrants of all sorts.

  Washington Allston

  Art, Tyrants, Mind

  Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.168, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

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• To fall for," "to be fallen for"--I feel in these words something unspeakably vulgar, farcical, and at the same time extraordinarily complacent. Once these expressions put in an appearance, no matter how solemn the place, the silent cathedrals of melancholy crumble, leaving nothing but an impression of fatuousness. It is curious, but the cathedrals of melancholy are not necessarily demolished if one can replace the vulgar "What a messy business it is to be fallen for" by the more literary "What uneasiness lies in being loved.

  Osamu Dazai

  Love, Lying, Fall

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.47, New Directions Publishing

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• The labouring poor, to use a vulgar expression, seem always to live from hand to mouth. Their present wants employ their whole whole attention, and they seldom think of the future. Even when they have an opportunity of saving they seldom exercise it, but all that is beyond their present neccessities goes, generally speaking, to the ale house.

  Thomas Malthus

  Exercise, Opportunity, Thinking

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.44, eKitap Projesi

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• Bullying behaviour can be communicated via text, mobile phones, internet, social networking sites, forums. But we can't limit it because these messages are then reinforced by television which glamorises yelling, swearing and vulgar behaviour as the way to walk the red carpet of acceptance.

  Louise Burfitt-Dons

  Bullying, Acceptance, Phones

  Speech, Tackling Bullying Conference, London, February 27, 2008.

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• Rage is essentially vulgar.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Rage

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• Wherever the appearance of a conventional aristocracy exists in America, it must arise from wealth, as it cannot from birth. An aristocracy of mere wealth is vulgar everywhere. In a republic, it is vulgar in the extreme.

  Harriet Martineau

  America, Republic, Aristocracy

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.117

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

  Diana Vreeland

  Class, Dull, Boring

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