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There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation. -- John Ruskin
Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing. -- Oscar Wilde
The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind. -- Albert Camus
The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth. -- Emile M. Cioran
The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him. -- John Ruskin
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. -- Oscar Wilde
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. -- Alfred North Whitehead
There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is. -- Roberto Cavalli
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. -- Marcus Aurelius
The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness. -- Ovid
No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime. -- Oscar Wilde
Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success. -- Edmund Burke
There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined. -- Mark Twain
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. -- Alexander Pope
I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action. -- Tennessee Williams
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. -- Oscar Wilde
A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true. -- Socrates
The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else. -- D. H. Lawrence
Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy. -- Ben Jonson
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Cowards shrink from toil and peril, Vulgar souls attempt and fail; Men of mettle, nothing daunted, Persevere till they prevail. -- Dean Koontz
Vulgar prejudices are those which arise out of accident, ignorance, or authority; natural prejudices are those which arise out of the constitution of the human mind itself. -- William Hazlitt
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
The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... is the movie vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't laugh. When we laugh, it's merely human nature. -- Roger Ebert
Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime admiring it and discovering new and changing phenomena that delight them. So it is with love. -- Honore de Balzac
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
Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death. -- John Pearson
There is nothing simple or dull in achieving the transparent page. Vulgar ostentation is twice as easy as discipline. When you realise that ugly typography never effaces itself, you will be able to capture beauty as the wise men capture happiness by aiming at something else. -- Beatrice Warde
A cat is never vulgar. -- Carl Van Vechten
But a dandy can never be a vulgar man. -- Charles Baudelaire
I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit. -- Lucien Bouchard
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. -- Aristophanes
Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal. -- Gustave Flaubert
We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd. -- Jean Henri Fabre
I'm quite into the French way - simple elegance with just a suggestion of sexiness, nothing vulgar. -- Michelle Dockery
I have always refused to do something that has offended me. I have been offered potential roles that are totally vulgar. -- Christopher Walken
A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true. -- Socrates
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar. -- Miguel de Cervantes
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
You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed. -- Slavoj Zizek
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
Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor. -- Martin Sheen
When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness. -- Lauren Bacall
Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I'm not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent - just like there's a side of me that's vulgar and violent. -- Angelina Jolie
There's a bizarre prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tri-state area is being done by trained chimpanzees, that geography screens out sensibility. There's an idea that all Los Angeles writing is about the movie industry, that it's vulgar, shallow and banal. -- Kate Braverman
Rage is essentially vulgar. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Romantics consider common sense vulgar. -- Mason Cooley
Whoever is ignorant is vulgar. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Frugality is for the vulgar. -- Francois Rabelais
I don't do any vulgar movements. -- Elvis Presley
Fact is based upon vulgar matter. -- Charles Olson
Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar. -- Samuel Griswold Goodrich
I like the trivial, vulgar and exalted. -- J. V. Cunningham
Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd. -- Voltaire
Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar -- Samuel Griswold Goodrich
The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious. -- Michel de Montaigne
Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar. -- Benjamin Franklin
The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg. -- Alexander Pope
The rest were vulgar deaths unknown to fame. -- Homer
Art is visceral and vulgar - it's an eruption. -- Georg Baselitz
But a dandy can never be a vulgar man -- Charles Baudelaire
The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American. -- Stan Brakhage
Consistency is a jewel, but too much jewelry is vulgar. -- Evan Esar
The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important. -- William Ralph Inge
Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull. -- Diana Vreeland
The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar. -- Oscar Wilde
Courage is the most common and vulgar of the virtues. -- Herman Melville
A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common. -- William Hazlitt
People confuse vulgar and naked with sexiness. You want the mystery! -- Carolina Herrera
A gentleman is calm and spacious: the vulgar are always fretting. -- Confucius
Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring. -- Diana Vreeland
It's vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money. -- Gordon Ramsay
I would never, ever do anything as vulgar as having fun. -- Steven Morrissey
Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena. -- Samuel Beckett
I think politics have gotten vulgar and we comedically portray that. -- Will Ferrell
The undressed is vulgar; the nude is pure, and the well-dressed tainted. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
A gentleman considers what is right; the vulgar consider what will pay. -- Confucius
I know I'm vulgar, but would you have me any other way? -- Elizabeth Taylor
To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant -- Thomas Carlyle
I'm a vulgar lounge entertainer, I don't need to wear a tie. -- Craig Ferguson
The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages. [Lat., Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.] -- Ovid
It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness. -- E. M. Forster
I'm vulgar, I'm a populist. But isn't that what the mayor should be? -- Jeffrey Archer
Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness. -- Henry David Thoreau
Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it. -- Henry Beston
Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible. -- Jeanne Moreau
The workforce in Latin America was treated as a vulgar instrument for capital accumulation. -- Rafael Correa
I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar. -- Morrissey
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions. -- Oscar Wilde
I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar. -- Morrissey
I love the vulgar. I kind of have the humor of a 17-year-old boy. -- Judy Gold
The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants. -- Charles Baudelaire
Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral. -- Robert L. Millet
The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh. -- Lord Chesterfield
Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar. -- Willa Cather
So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould. -- Edmund Waller
I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't. -- D. H. Lawrence
A party spirit betrays the greatest men to act as meanly as the vulgar herd. -- Jean de la Bruyere
I didn't like the '80s at all; it was a vulgar moment of fashion. -- Valentino Garavani
No music is vulgar, unless it is played in a way that makes it so. -- Herbert von Karajan
The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar. -- Tanith Lee
The leader, mingling with the vulgar host, Is in the common mass of matter lost. -- Homer
Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially. -- Lauren Bacall
Gentlemen cherish worth; the vulgar cherish dirt. Gentlemen trust in justice; the vulgar trust in favor. -- Confucius
The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Sir, I have seen your film and it is vulgar! Madame, my film rises below vulgarity. -- Mel Brooks

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