Quotes of Vulgar - somelinesforyou

“ The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar. ”

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

“ The study of the Bible will keep anyone from being vulgar in style. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss. ”

- John Osborne

“ True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason. ”

- Alfred North Whitehead

“ To speak well of a vulgar man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man. ”

- Leonardo da Vinci

“ To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined. ”

- Mark Twain

“ The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind. ”

- Albert Camus

“ 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

“ The higher a man stands, the more the word "vulgar" becomes unintelligible to him. ”

- John Ruskin

“ Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average. person. ”

- Dean William R. Inge

“ My idea of bliss was to be on a TV talent show from somewhere like Blackpool, doing tap or singing. I loved that stuff, but my mother thought it was vulgar. ”

- Kristin Scott Thomas

“ And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and pitched beside Ebenezer: and the Philistines pitched in Aphek. ”

- Bible

“ So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more into the coast of Israel: and the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel. ”

- Bible

“ But when the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines came up to seek David; and David heard of it, and went down to the hold. ”

- Bible

“ And when the Philistines heard that David was anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David. And David heard of it, and went out against them. ”

- Bible

“ But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel. ”

- Bible

“ I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters. ”

- Isaac Barrow

“ What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with gimp mentalities. ”

- Hunter S. Thompson

“ Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts. ”

- Vladimir Nabokov

“ Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person. ”

- William R. Inge

“ Will is extremely funny. The tights, though, they were a little vulgar. I just looked at the tights and there's nothing funny about them! ”

- James Caan

“ Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common. ”

- William Nazlitt

“ 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

“ One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of plutocracy. ”

- Theodore Roosevelt

“ You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. ”

- Aristophanes

“ A vulgar mind is proud in prosperity and humble in adversity. A noble mind is humble in prosperity and proud in adversity. ”

- Unknown
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