(89 quotes found)
“The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.”
Raymond Chandler
“Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken”
William Hazlitt
“Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar”
Greek proverb
“Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man”
W. R. Inge
“Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their representative American, someone who actually embodies all of those qualities [Michael Moore].”
Christopher Hitchens
“Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.”
Dame Edith Sitwell
“Above the vulgar flight of common souls.”
Arthur Murphy
“The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.”
“Argument are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.”
Oscar Wilde
“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
