Quotes About Vulgar
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar and often convincing.
~ Oscar Wilde
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My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression
~ Oscar Wilde
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there was a different way I wrote when, even subconsciously, I was seeking male approval, male sexual approval: a more coy way, more reserved, more nervous about being perceived as angry or vulgar.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
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What good was this place, this college? What good was Anglo-Saxon, when one only learned it in order to answer examination questione, in order that one should have a higher commercial value later on? She was sick with this long service at the inner commercial shrine. Yet what else was there? Was life all this, and this only? Everywhere, every- thing was debased to the same service. Everything went to produce vulgar things, to encumber material life.
~ D.H. Lawrence
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What good was this place, this college? What good was Anglo-Saxon, when one only learned it in order to answer examination questions, in order that one should have a higher commercial value later on? She was sick with this long service at the inner commercial shrine. Yet what else was there? Was life all this, and this only? Everywhere, everything was debased to the same service. Everything went to produce vulgar things, to encumber material life.
~ D.H. Lawrence
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As Claude-Anne Lopez notes, "In colonial America it was sinful to look idle, in France it was vulgar to look busy.
~ Walter Isaacson
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Fuck you," he said, resorting to that last argument of vice presidents.
~ Cherie Priest
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In vino Veritas. In Aqua satietas. In... What is the Latin for Tea? What! Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.
~ Hilaire Belloc, "On Tea," 1908
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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.
~ Hazlitt
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Crude, immoral, vulgar and senseless.
~ Leo Tolstoy
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One feels pan of a vast servitude, anonymous and unending, all of it vanishing unexpectedly with the passing image of Madame Picquet behind the glass of her office, that faintly vulgar, thrilling profile. As I think of it, there's an ache in my chest. I cannot control these dreams in which she seems to lie in my future like a whole season of extravagant meals if only I knew how to arrange it.
~ James Salter
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Had he been even old, ugly, and vulgar, the gratitude and kindness of Mrs. Dashwood would have been secured by any act of attention to her child; but the influence of youth, beauty, and elegance, gave an interest to the action which came home to her feelings.
~ Jane Austen
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You know nothing. You're nothing but a skank-ass, pencil-dick hemorrhoid. And you smell like anal leakage." "Say what?
~ Janet Evanovich
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There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
~ Moliere
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To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.
~ Oscar Wilde
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The harmony of soul and body - how much that is! We in our madness have separated the two, and have invented a realism that is vulgar, and ideality that is void.
~ Oscar Wilde
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All crime is vulgar, just as all vulgarity is a crime
~ Oscar Wilde
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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.
~ Oscar Wilde
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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
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Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are sickly aims, the false ideals of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
~ Oscar Wilde
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It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. That is the reason why I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
~ Oscar Wilde
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It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces a false impression.
~ Oscar Wilde
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The moment was lost in vulgar details.
~ Oscar Wilde
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Detesto todos los argumentos! Son siempre vulgares, y a menudo convincentes.
~ Oscar Wilde
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