Quotes with vulgar

  • To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense, is like attempting to hew blocks with a rasor.
  • I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
  • Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
  • Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.
  • 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.
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  • Socrates 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
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Oscar Wilde As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have it's fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Oscar Wilde Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bubba Smith Everything has gotten vulgar and out of line for children to watch. It's more of a swearing match.
    Bubba Smith
    American professional football player (1945 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Tennessee Williams I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Sir Thomas Browne I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • Oscar Wilde I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Oscar Wilde 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
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Hilaire Belloc 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
    British Author (1870 - 1953)
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  • Oscar Wilde It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • George W. Crane Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire.
    George W. Crane
    American psychologist and physician
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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