Vulgar Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• 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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• The consolations of the vulgar are bitter in the royal ear. Let physicians and confectioners and servants in the great houses be judged by what they have done, and even by what they have meant to do; the great people themselves are judged by what they are. I have been told that lions, trapped and shut up in cages, grieve from shame more than from hunger.

  Isak Dinesen

  Grieving, People, House

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• The wretched beings depicted by Millet touch us profoundly because he loved them profoundly. They have nothing in common with vulgar ugliness. Beauty will always remain the highest aim of art.

  Jules Breton

  Beauty, Art, Common

  Jules Breton (1891). “The Life of an Artist: Art and Nature”

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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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• 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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• It's vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.

  Gordon Ramsay

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• The vulgar and common esteem is seldom happy in hitting right; and I am much mistaken if, amongst the writings of my time, the worst are not those which have most gained the popular applause.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Writing, Hitting, Common

  Michel de Montaigne, George Savile Marquis of Halifax (1743). “Montaigne's Essays in Three Books: With Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator”, p.216

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• The joyous fulfillment of your sex : the sacred duties of beloved wife, and helpmeet, and mother. In opposition to the vulgar and mercantile hurly-burly of the great world, the idyllic pleasures of the domestic hearth-the which, I firmly believe, make of one small room an everywhere, indeed; and provide us with that small measure of bliss, which is, if we are greatly fortunate, and deserving, Our Lord's promise to us, of the Heaven to come.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Mother, Sex, Women

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• The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.

  James Joseph Sylvester

  Life, Wings, Long

  James Joseph Sylvester (1870). “The Laws of Verse: Or Principles of Versification Exemplified in Metrical Translations, Together with an Annotated Reprint of the Inaugural Presidential Address to the Mathematical and Physical Section of the British Association at Exeter”, p.122

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• I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse.

  Egerton Brydges

  Writing, Genius, Authorship

  Sir Egerton Brydges (1824). “Letters on the Character and Poetical Genius of Lord Byron”, p.340

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• The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Luck, Genius, Fortune

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.216

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• I think politics have gotten vulgar and we comedically portray that.

  Will Ferrell

  Thinking

  "Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis Hit ‘Campaign’ Trail". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com. July 18, 2012.

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• People are getting attention for doing nothing, for behaving poorly, for abusing themselves in public and being abused, exploiting themselves. I find it vulgar and I find it awful.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  People, Attention, Awful

  "Guess Who Loves Cheap Chic? Sarah Jessica Parker". Interview with Bob Morris, www.glamour.com. June 30, 2008.

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• When you know you are of worth, you don't have to raise your voice, you don't have to become rude, you don't have to become vulgar; you just are. And you are like the sky is, as the air is, the same way water is wet. It doesn't have to protest.

  Maya Angelou

  Air, Sky, Voice

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

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• Comedy, although it is not one of the fine arts - it's a vulgar art, it's one of the people's arts, it's the spoken word, the writing that goes into it is an art form - it's certainly artistry.

  George Carlin

  Art, Writing, People

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Ignorance, Judgement, Criticism

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• We live in a culture where the one who shouts the loudest gets the most attention. It's not in the vulgar, it's not in the shock that one finds art. And it's not the excessively beautiful. It's in between; it's in nuance.

  Duane Michals

  Beautiful, Art, Culture

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• Who reads short stories? one is asked, and I like to think that they are read by men and women in the dentist's office, waiting to be called to the chair; they are read on transcontinental plane trips instead of watching banal and vulgar films spin out the time between our coasts; they are read by discerning and well-informed men and women who seem to feel that narrative fiction can contribute to our understanding of one another and the sometimes bewildering world around us.

  John Cheever

  Men, Thinking, Office

  John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). “John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings”

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• There was a time when it was considered vulgar and unnecessary to pursue money, but today anyone who doesn't believe in money must be out of their minds!

  Diana Vreeland

  Believe, Mind, Today

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.

  Samuel Smiles

  Riches, Claims, Distinction

  Samuel Smiles (1800). “Thrift”, p.314

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• The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation.

  Emily Post

  Imagine, Elegance, Slang

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.58, Cosimo, Inc.

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