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Quotes About Vulgar

YOU WHORE, I'M GETTING A BLOW JOB!
~ Charles Bukowski
Of course, his own plan of letting ill alone was the rational, prudent, irreproachable plan, and just what any gentleman in his senses would have done; but here was a vulgar, fat curate, out of his senses, determined not to let ill alone, but to do something, as Cary felt in his heart, of a far diviner stamp.
~ Charles Kingsley
TV is not vulgar and prurient and dumb because the people who compose the audience are vulgar and dumb. Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb interests and wildly different in their refined and aesthetic and noble interests." —David Foster Wallace
~ Chris Anderson
His wife, she was told by a chatty guidebook, had been born in Paris, and had taken Directoire ideas and married them to Old British Empire with verandahs. It was built of red brick with cornices and gargoyles and was so very, very vulgar that it was magnificent. Its total disregard of all canons of taste was dramatic and oddly endearing.
~ Kerry Greenwood
There is no tyranny so hateful as a vulgar, anonymous tyranny. It is all-permeating, all-thwarting; it blasts every budding novelty and sprig of genius with its omnipresent and fierce stupidity
~ George Santayana
It was darker than a carload of assholes.
~ George V. Higgins
Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man.
~ Dean William R. Inge
I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can stand 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
The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success.
~ Edmund Burke
The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation.
~ Jenny Eclair
If there is one notion I hate more than another, it is that of marriage - I mean marriage in the vulgar, weak sense, as a mere matter of sentiment.
~ Charlotte Bronte
Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
MUMMY, n. - an ancient Egyptian handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar.
~ Willa Cather
suppurating bunghole with all the allure of a hair on a toilet seat.
~ Christopher Fowler
hate what I see around me, Arthur. The urban middle class destroyed, the working poor exploited, the vulgar rich elevated to eminence, the underclass demonised, the wasteland of celebrity held in veneration.
~ Christopher Fowler
I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive, he was quite certain that he had isolated the only real one. This vulgar method, which is now the norm and the standard in much non-Left journalism as well, is designed to have the effect of making any noisy moron into a master analyst.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Very often, people embarking on such guesswork make the vulgar assumption that the lower the motives, the more likely they are to be authentic.
~ Christopher Hitchens
You whoreson scalawag! said I. You flesh-turd dropped stinking from the poxy arsehole of a hare-lipped harlot!
~ Christopher Moore
The entire city of Las Vegas—plastic opulence, treasure for the taking, vulgar towers, and cocktail waitresses with improbable breasts—is built on the self-delusion of the Beta Male.
~ Christopher Moore
Die, thou badger-shagging spunk monkey, said I.
~ Christopher Moore
The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds -- success.
~ Kurt Herbert Alder