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Vulgar Quotes - Page 3

The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American.

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.156, Oxford University Press on Demand

Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation.

Marshall McLuhan (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy”, p.125, University of Toronto Press

Vulgarity is no substitute for wit.

"Downton Abbey: Series Three. Episode 3". TV Series, 2010 - 2015.

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

"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.

The rest were vulgar deaths unknown to fame.

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

Fashionability is a kind of elevated vulgarity.

george darley (1862). “the works of beaumont and fletcher.”, p.30

So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.

Edmund Waller (1722). “Poems ... Fifth edition, with several additions never before printed”, p.139

A gentleman is calm and spacious: the vulgar are always fretting.

Confucius (1909). “The Sayings of Confucius”

A cat is never vulgar.

Carl Van Vechten (1996). “The Tiger in the House”, p.177, Courier Corporation

He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.

Ben Jonson (1856). “Poetical Works of Ben Jonson. Edited by Robert Bell”, p.27

I think politics have gotten vulgar and we comedically portray that.

"Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis Hit ‘Campaign’ Trail". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com. July 18, 2012.

The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.

Tanith Lee (2013). “The Silver Metal Lover”, p.55, Hachette UK