Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old vulgar quotes, vulgar sayings, and vulgar proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.E. M. Forster
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The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious.Michel de Montaigne
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To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant.Thomas Carlyle
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The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.William Ralph Inge
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Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.Arthur Schopenhauer
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Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.Samuel Beckett
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The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar.Niccolo Machiavelli
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The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh.Lord Chesterfield
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The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages.Ovid
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It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.Roger Ebert
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The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.G. K. Chesterton
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The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease, and the manner of a gentleman has ease without freedom.Lord Chesterfield
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When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle and spiritual idea.G. K. Chesterton
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It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.Oscar Wilde
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The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.William Hazlitt
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The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation.Emily Post
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A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one nor the other.Epictetus
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A vulgar man is captious and jealous; eager and impetuous about trifles. He suspects himself to be slighted, and thinks everything that is said meant at him.Lord Chesterfield
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The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of eternal motion.Leon Trotsky
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Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form or told their use.Samuel Johnson
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There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.Walter Scott
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The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.Albert Camus
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Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.Oscar Wilde
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It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produced a false impression.Oscar Wilde
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The vulgar refuse or crouch beneath their load; the brave bear theirs without repining.David Mallet
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The foolish and vulgar are always accustomed to value equally the good and the bad.Tomas de Iriarte
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The vulgar and the many are fit only to be led or driven.Robert South
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Vulgar minds refuse to crouch beneath their load; the brave bear theirs without repining.James Thomson
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Whoever is ignorant is vulgar.Miguel de Cervantes
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The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.Ralph Waldo Emerson