Quotes About Vulgar

Reverence is an ennobling sentiment; it is felt to be degrading only by the vulgar mind, which would escape the sense of its own littleness by elevating itself into an antagonist of what is above it. He that has no pleasure in looking up is not fit so much as to look down. Of such minds are mannerists in Art; in the world, tyrants of all sorts.

You want to know what Classics are?" said a drunk Dean of Admissions to me at a faculty party a couple of years ago. "I'll tell you what Classics are. Wars and homos." A sententious and vulgar statement, certainly, but like many such gnomic vulgarities, it also contains a tiny splinter of truth.)

Are you always up this early? Almost always. It's beautiful here, but morning light can make the most vulgar things tolerable.

America was supposed to be a place ruined and homogenized by highways, that that was its unique character, crass and vulgar sameness.

Manners require time, as nothing is more vulgar than haste.

So commonplace was crucifixion in the Roman Empire that Cicero referred to it as "that plague." Among the citizenry, the word "cross" (crux) became a popular and particularly vulgar taunt, akin to "go hang yourself.

Loyalty to an employer is the most vulgar of loyalties.

It is when one begins to lose the consciousness of freedom, and when the idea of necessity enters the world at all, when there is any hurry or strain anywhere, a letter to be written or a train to catch, when you have got to work, to make the horses of the dream gallop, or to make the rifles go off, that the dream is declining, and turning into the nightmare, which belongs to the poorest and most vulgar class of dreams.

By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.

The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease, and the manner of a gentleman has ease without freedom.

A vulgar man is captious and jealous; eager and impetuous about trifles. He suspects himself to be slighted, and thinks everything that is said meant at him.

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.

My mother was always the one with the dark, really filthy sense of humor. She was a vulgar woman. She used to tell me to do comedy before I even tried it. She was always up for any gag.

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.

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.

May your earlobes turn to assholes and shit on your shoulders.

Your mother's cunt has a peculiar tubular shape!' he yelled. 'Nonetheless, I tolerate its effluvium and enthusiastically lick its inner folds whenever she demands!

The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.

Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.

For goodness sakes, beware of curls… It is a great art to do them so that the girls not only look modern - but do not suddenly look very vulgar.

Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.

A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home.

But the idealist subdued to vulgar necessities must employ vulgar minds to draw the inferences to which he cannot stoop