Quotes by Vulgar It is quite a common and vulgar thing among humans to understand, foresee, know and predict the troubles of others. But oh what a rare thing it is to predict, know, foresee and understand one's own troubles. Francois Rabelais vulgartroublecommon Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns. George Gilder vulgarpeopletelevision It's vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money. Gordon Ramsay vulgar Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. Henri Frederic Amiel vulgarmaterialismtruth Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it. Henry Beston banishmentvulgarnight No music is vulgar, unless it is played in a way that makes it so. Herbert von Karajan vulgarmusic-isway How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians. Horace Walpole vulgarcircumstanceslittles I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority. Horace Walpole vulgarnationsair The rest were vulgar deaths unknown to fame. Homer vulgarfame Everyone experiences bouts of jealousy; but the dignified person conceals it, while the vulgar one acts upon it Ibn Taymiyyah vulgarpersons I like the trivial, vulgar and exalted. J. V. Cunningham vulgarexalted We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd. Jean-Henri Fabre vulgarherds I'm vulgar, I'm a populist. But isn't that what the mayor should be? Jeffrey Archer vulgarmayorsshould I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation. Jenny Eclair ostentationvulgarthinking Why would anyone be able to make $21 million not showing up for work for a single day? That is vulgar capitalism. That is not good for the nation. Jesse Jackson vulgarshowing-upable The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million. Johann Kaspar Lavater vulgarproportiongenius I have heard him [William Harvey] say, that after his Booke of the Circulation of the Blood came-out, that he fell mightily in his Practize, and that 'twas beleeved by the vulgar that he was crack-brained. John Aubrey vulgarcracksblood The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him. John Ruskin vulgarliteraturemen The loveliest tune imaginable becomes vulgar and insupportable as soon as the public begins to hum it and the hurdy-gurdies make it their own. Joris-Karl Huysmans vulgartunes My erotic poetry is not poetry that uses vernacular words. It is a very erotic poetry, but I never use anything, for example, that is not in the dictionary. I don't like to be ugly, I seek out what is beautiful, and if my great search is for freedom and beauty, I can't be vulgar, ordinary. Maria Teresa Horta vulgaruglybeautiful«1234»
