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Quotes About Vulgar

There is an air of plausibility which accompanies vulgar reasonings and notions, taken from the beaten circle of ordinary experience, that is admirably suited to the narrow capacities of some, and to the laziness of others.
~ Edmund Burke
Must'a had dog shit on my dick when I knocked his momma up with him
~ Edward Lee
I consider exercise vulgar. It makes people smell.
~ Alec Yuill Thornton
Oh, oh!' said Renzo, 'you are a poet!' To comprehend this witticism of poor Renzo, it is necessary to be informed, that in the eyes of the vulgar of Milan, and more particularly in its environs, the name of poet did not signify, as among cultivated people, a sublime genius, an inhabitant of Pindus, a pupil of the muses, but a whimsicality and eccentricity in discourse and conduct, which had more of singularity than sense; and an absurd wresting of words from their legitimate signification.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
Do you have to skulk about like that?" "No, I don't suppose I have to skulk about.... I simply enjoy doing so." "Well, it's a very vulgar habit.
~ Alexandra Ivy
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
Archie." He was gruff. "No man can hold himself accountable for the results of his psychological defects, especially those he shares with all his fellow men, such as lack of omniscience. It is a vulgar fallacy that what you don't know can't hurt you; but it is true that what you don't know can't convict you.
~ Rex Stout
Passionless is vulgar ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka")
~ William S. Wilson
A habitation giddy and unsureHath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart.
~ William Shakespeare
You mustn't long in heaven, said Mrs. Wilkins. You're supposed to be quite complete there. And it is heaven, isn't it, Rose? See how everything has been let in together -- the dandelions and the irises, the vulgar and the superior, me and Mrs. Fisher -- all welcome, all mixed up anyhow, and all so visibly happy and enjoying ourselves.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
The world was a cruder, more vulgar place than the one I had known. This was the language required to live in it, I supposed.
~ Alice McDermott
How the vulgar loved portents, prodigies and the untoward. Only the religious knew how embarrassing they could be - and quite beside the point.
~ Alice Thomas Ellis
America's critics can be heard everywhere. It is too much in love with money - worshipping the god of the marketplace, the golden calf. It has too much money, seven of the top 10 banks, eight of the top 10 companies etc. It is too stingy, giving away less of its wealth than other countries. It is vulgar, a rich barbarian.
~ Maurice Saatchi
It's a very ancient culture, British culture. You can't be seen to be too wealthy, and you certainly can't be seen to be giving away any of your wealth either because that's sort of vulgar, too. It's funny, that, because in New York, if you are wealthy, you have to be philanthropic to be successful.
~ Trudie Styler
Yes, peasants," he repeated slowly. "The lowliest of the low among humans." Then he enunciated, "Exceedingly backward and vulgar hillbillies." "Been called worse, mister." At his raised brows, she exhaled impatiently. "Bootlegger, moonshiner, Elly May Clampett, mountain mama, redneck, backwoods Bessie, hick, trailer trash, yokel, and, more recently, death-row con." "No references to mining? I'm disappointed.
~ Kresley Cole
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
the vague feeling of ambitions in common, the awakening of a higher intelligence among the vulgar herd of dunces and dunderheads they had to contend with in class (27)
~ Émile Zola
Kimmy's got a mouth like a sailor fucking a trucker,
~ Amy Lane
Suddenly his face twisted into a sneer. 'Oh, I can see what you're thinking, Hartmann. "What a vulgar fellow! A car salesman! And now he fancies himself as a second Bismarck!" But we have done something your kind never managed. We have made Germany great again.' 'Actually,' said Hartmann mildly, 'I was thinking you have egg on your chin.
~ Robert Harris
It's a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator's experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist's
~ Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren
There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue.
~ Anton Chekhov
I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation.
~ Jenny Eclair
Last winter Prince Hrobarik, not being so gracious, tried to hire me to find a beauty who, sick of his vulgar advances, had fled the ball, losing a slipper. It was difficult to convince him that he needed a huntsman, and not a witcher.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
I've never understood why the majority of human curses and insults refer to the erotic sphere. Sex is wonderful and associated with beauty, joy and pleasure. How can the names of the sexual organs be used as a vulgar synonym for ?
~ Andrzej Sapkowski