To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.
Oscar Wilde
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Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Oscar Wilde
One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
Oscar Wilde
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Oscar Wilde
As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Oscar Wilde
Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of plutocracy.
Theodore Roosevelt
Crude, immoral, vulgar and senseless.
Leo Tolstoy
I wiggle my shoulders, I shake my legs, I walk up and down the stage, I hop around on one foot. But I never bump and grind. Why, that's vulgar. I'd never do anything vulgar before an audience. My mother would never allow it.
Elvis Presley
You will find the Americans much like the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.
Harold Macmillan
Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of ''quaint,'' and cultivated people become interested in it, and finally it begins to take on the archaic dignity of the primitive.
Northrop Frye
You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
Aristophanes
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.
Henry Beston
I like the trivial, vulgar and exalted.
J. V. Cunningham
This vulgar victim-bashing is very inappropriate and serves no other purpose than to further victimize our child victim.
Randy Means
So it's just not about, you know, vulgar nudity.
Mark Badgley
Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.
Hilaire Belloc
[Regan has been amused, in the intervening years, to watch editors who rolled their eyes at Limbaugh scramble to try to duplicate his success.] What people respond to in this culture is loud and brash and pointed and sometimes vulgar -- that's what gets people's attention, on TV and radio and in books, ... Shades-of-gray books are very difficult to sell.
Judith Regan
Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire.
George Crane
Above the vulgar flight of common souls.
Arthur Murphy
My look is very, very glamorous, seductive, yet classical and unusual. It's never vulgar or showy in character.
Lilia Lopez
Wisdom and spirit of the Universe! Thou soul is the eternity of thought! That giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion! Not in vain By day or star-light thus from by first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul, Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things.
William Wordsworth
Pretty low, but not vulgar.
Richard Tyler
We've seen it before. The buddies of a painfully shy, awkward guy?who has never had a girlfriend?help him find true love. But this latest incarnation ? is relentlessly vulgar and frequently offensive, even beyond the false premise that there's something intrinsically wrong with an unmarried man being sexually inexperienced.
Harry Forbes
MUMMY, n. An ancient Egyptian, formerly in universal use among modern civilized nations as medicine, and now engaged in supplying art with an excellent pigment. He is handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals. By means of the Mummy, mankind, it is said, Attests to the gods its respect for the dead. We plunder.
Ambrose Bierce
It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.
Margaret Fuller
It's the length we like to show. It's a very edgy, very modern length to show. We don't like it too short because it gets vulgar, very '80s.
James Mischka
The vulgar think the God by analogy to man and so worship Him in the form of the Gods. The learned think the God by analogy to principles and so worship Him in the form of Love or Truth. But the wise think the God not at all. They know that thought, which is finite, can only do violence to the God, which is infinite.It is enough, they say, that the God thinks them.
R. Scott Bakker
There's a certain depth to the stories and to the satire. I think we're craving something not as vulgar, maybe a little cleaner. The great thing about the show is that it's so tongue-in-cheek and not as blatant.
Jessica Fuller
Russia is using primitive and vulgar methods. This is the last attempt, the last fight to keep its influence on Ukraine.
Oleksander Dergachev
The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American.
Stan Brakhage
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
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
Henry Ward Beecher
On one side you have book burners, Congressional wives and Pat Robertson. On the other side, you have vulgar comedians, foul-mouthed rap groups and Dennis Hopper--all your choices should be so easy.
Sandra Bernhard
Sometimes it's so vulgar that it's not particularly good for religion. But if religion is in everything, it has to be in the vulgar stuff, too.
Michael Novak
What people respond to in this culture is loud and brash and pointed and sometimes vulgar -- that's what gets people's attention, on TV and radio and in books. Shades-of-gray books are very difficult to sell.
Judith Regan
Our game has no blood, no decapitation, no vulgar language.
Troy Lyndon
I attribute [success] to having the background of just loving the great stories of the world-and that's what makes the most successful films-combined with my trashy, vulgar appreciation of all that is modern Hollywood.
Leslie Dixon
We analyzed information gathered from focus groups. From the feedback we received, the groups did not interpret the ads as vulgar.
Mark Cicero
Anybody who cares about the culture they are living in. There is a tremendous disconnect between regular, ordinary Americans who live in the middle of the country and what Tom Wolfe calls the 'blue parentheses' on both coasts Culture has gotten too angry, mean and vulgar.
Bernard Goldberg
We're all happy. Medals? Screw medals. I don't really care about medals. Sorry to be vulgar. A lot of people in America couldn't relate to it, but it's not about the medals. It's about the effort and hard work.
Steve Nyman
I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority.
Horace Walpole
A cat is never vulgar.
Carl Van Vechten
Such vulgar songs are harmful to kids, since most of whom still have difficulties to tell what is good from what is bad.
Zhang Yong
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