Vulgar Quotes - Page 11

• Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime admiring it and discovering new and changing phenomena that delight them. So it is with love.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Sea, Soul

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• I'm having to do a lot to keep my clothes on and not be cast in girlfriend roles. Some women will say, "I don't want to be a man - I want the opportunities I can get as a woman." Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful and I'm not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent - just like there's a side of me that's vulgar and violent.

  Angelina Jolie

  Beautiful, Girlfriend, Opportunity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• They [the Templars] had read Avicenna, and they were not ignorant, like the Europeans. How could you live alongside a tolerant, mystical, libertine culture for two centuries without succumbing to its allure, particularly when you compared it to Western culture, which was crude, vulgar, barbaric, and Germanic?

  Umberto Eco

  Two, Ignorant, Western Culture

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The rest were vulgar deaths unknown to fame.

  Homer

  Fame

  Homer (1791). “The Iliad: Of Homer. Translated by Mr. Pope. ...”, p.335

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• Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mind, Toadstools, Insult

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• Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Absence, Coarse

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• The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages.
  [Lat., Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.]

  Ovid

  Friendship, Herds, Advantage

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• The polite of every country seem to have but one character. A gentleman of Sweden differs but little, except in trifles, from one of any other country. It is among the vulgar we are to find those distinctions which characterize a people.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Character, People

  Oliver Goldsmith (1834). “An inquiry into the present state of polite learning. The Bee. History of Cyrillo Padovano. Life of Dr. Parnell. Life of Lord Bolingbroke. Prefaces and introductions”, p.77

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• The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Thinking, Mind, Eccentric

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• Fashion is a great restraint upon your persons of taste and fancy; who would otherwise in the most trifling instances be able to distinguish themselves from the vulgar.

  William Shenstone

  Fashion, Fancy, Able

  William Shenstone (1765). “The works in verse and prose, of William Shenstone, esq: in two volumes”, p.196

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• A simple garb is the proper costume of the vulgar; it is cut for them, and exactly suits their measure, but it is an ornament for those who have filled up their lives with great deeds. I liken them to beauty in dishabille, but more bewitching on that account.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Cutting, Simple, Filled Up

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• Rather be frumpy than vulgar! Much. Frumps are often celebrities in disguise -- but a person of vulgar appearance is vulgar all through.

  Emily Post

  Appearance, Disguise, Persons

  EMILY POST (1950). “ETIQUETTE”

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

  Margaret Oliphant

  Travel, Home, World

  Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) (1894). “A House in Bloomsbury”

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• One of the first principles of decorative art is that in all manufactures ornament must hold a place subordinate to that of utility; and when, by its exuberance, ornament interferes with utility, it is misplaced and vulgar.

  George Mason

  Art, Principles, Ornaments

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• Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Letters, Firsts, Careful

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2013). “The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death”, p.162, Open Road Media

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• This noble word [women], spirit-stirring as it passes over English ears, is in America banished, and 'ladies' and 'females' substituted: the one to English taste mawkish and vulgar; the other indistinctive and gross.

  Harriet Martineau

  America, Female, Noble

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.145

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• Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Law, Age, Boots

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• The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Genius, Proportion, Millions

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• A careless and blasphemous use of the name of the Divine Being is not only sinful, but it is also prima facie evidence of vulgar associations.

  Hosea Ballou

  Names, Use, Association

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• Kirstie [Alley] saved me, in a way. [At the time], I had a terrible marriage, and I stayed at her house. She was wonderful - just a kind, big-hearted, filthy girl. Somehow she could be vulgar without being vulgar.

  Bebe Neuwirth

  Girl, House, Way

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders: a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by talk of vulgar, mundane things like pay.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Work, Motherhood, Leader

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• The camel carries on his dreary circular task with his usual slow and pompous step and head poised superciliously, as if it were a ritual affair above the comprehension of the vulgar; and no doubt he comforts himself for the dullness of life by a sense of virtue, like many other formalists beside him.

  Freya Stark

  Doubt, Usual, Comfort

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• When a woman has the gift of silence she possesses a quality above the vulgar. It is a gift of Heaven seldom bestowed; without a little miracle it cannot be accomplished; and Nature suffers violence when Heaven puts a woman in the humor of observing silence.

  Pierre Corneille

  Silence, Miracle, Heaven

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• The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, were exterior appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and virtue.

  Samuel Johnson

  Greatness, Men, Details

  Samuel Johnson (1840). “The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson...”, p.260

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• The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Educational, People, Leaving

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