(87 quotes found)
“Argument are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.”
Oscar Wilde
“To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant”
Thomas Carlyle
“The vulgar mind fancies that good judgment is implied chiefly in the capacity to censure; and yet there is no judgment so exquisite as that which knows properly how to approve”
Walter Gilmore Simms
“A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.”
William Hazlitt
“Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar”
Benjamin Franklin
“There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined”
Mark Twain
“Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.”
William Shakespeare
“Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity.”
Max Weber
“[He appreciated its] compounded vulgarity, ... It had that Peter Finch in 'Network,' 'I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore' quality.”
George Carlin