A cat is never vulgar.
Carl Van Vechten

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

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

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

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
Oscar Wilde

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Oscar Wilde

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

But a dandy can never be a vulgar man.
Charles Baudelaire

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
Aristophanes

Everything has gotten vulgar and out of line for children to watch. It's more of a swearing match.
Bubba Smith

Fact is based upon vulgar matter.
Charles Olson

Frugality is for the vulgar.
Francois Rabelais

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
Logan P. Smith

How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.
Horace Walpole

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
Tennessee Williams

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 do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
Orson Welles

I don't do any vulgar movements.
Elvis Presley

I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit.
Lucien Bouchard

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