Vulgar Quotes

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

Emotional, True, Nothing

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

War, Long, Popular

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

Good, Society, Same

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

Often, Convincing, Avoided

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time, Nothing, Manners

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

Mean, Ambition, Idea

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
Albert Camus

Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.
Carroll O'Connor

Business, Daily, Show

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

Work, Money, Shall

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

Betrayal, Deceit, Known

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Rude, Light, Action

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.
John Ruskin

Him, Word, Higher

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

Truth, May, Cannot

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

Women, Sexy, Real

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
Alexander Pope

Learned, Egg, Roast

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
E. M. Forster

Mind, Vice, Thrilled

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Truth, Everything, Making

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
Stendhal

Work, Politics, Ignore

Romantics consider common sense vulgar.
Mason Cooley

Sense, Common, Consider

The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.
Ovid

Friends, Values, Crowd

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.
David Herbert Lawrence

Nothing, Everything, Democracy

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Alfred North Whitehead

Courage, True, Reason

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.
Gustave Flaubert

Beautiful, Woman, Animal

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
Walter Scott

Religion, Doubt, Matters

I don't do any vulgar movements.
Elvis Presley

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

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
Emile M. Cioran

Truth, Fear, Deceived

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

Alone, Happy, Child

Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
Camille Paglia

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