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
Related I'm not saying that television is vulgar and dumb because the people who compose the Audience are vu... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common WILLIAM NAZLITT A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common. WILLIAM NAZLITT A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common. WILLIAM HAZLITT I find it vulgar that people are so fascinated by natural disasters, and we allow footage of young p... SASHA GREY There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined. MARK TWAIN There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined MARK TWAIN I consider exercise vulgar. It makes people smell. ALEC YUILL THORNTON Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But t... MARY MACLANE The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar. NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I'm not embarrassed ... ANGELINA JOLIE The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar. G. K. CHESTERTON Money gives you the luxury of not caring about it. You can affect to find it crass and vulgar, but s... IRVINE WELSH To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant THOMAS CARLYLE They said that Etta James is still vulgar. I said, Oh, how dare them say I'm still vulgar. I'... ETTA JAMES A cat is never vulgar. CARL VAN VECHTEN A cat is never vulgar CARL VECHTEN Frugality is for the vulgar. FRANCOIS RABELAIS A cat is never vulgar CARL VAN VECHTEN pretty low, but not vulgar. RICHARD TYLER It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and L... MARGARET FULLER It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and L... MARGARET FULLER Nothing is more vulgar than haste. RALPH WALDO EMERSON Fact is based upon vulgar matter. CHARLES OLSON Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing. OSCAR WILDE Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing. OSCAR WILDE Argument are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing. OSCAR WILDE Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing OSCAR WILDE Arguments are to be avoided, they are always vulgar and often convincing. OSCAR WILDE There is a sense that things have gotten too vulgar, and designers will do their part and pull back. DIANE CLEHANE So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould. EDMUND WALLER The tomb-sweepers' feelings are understandable. But burning these messy things -- not only is it mir... DOU YUPEI Midshipmen and cadets remain stronger and more aggressive than their male counterparts at civilian s... JAMES WEBB Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar SAMUEL GRISWOLD GOODRICH Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar. SAMUEL GRISWOLD GOODRICH Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. OSCAR WILDE The undressed is vulgar - the nude is pure ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Passionless is vulgar ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka") WILLIAM S. WILSON It's vulgar, but not like grabbing your crotch, not that bad an obscenity. JOSEPH GANNASCOLI The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American. STAN BRAKHAGE Crude, immoral, vulgar and senseless. LEO TOLSTOY It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then mere... OSCAR WILDE No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime OSCAR WILDE Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet tryin... ROBERT GRAVES Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste. RALPH WALDO EMERSON Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways ... CARROLL O'CONNOR I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. OSCAR WILDE It's absolutely disgusting and vulgar material. GARY DAVIDSON Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible. JEANNE MOREAU The vulgar follow Fortune's glances. UNKNOWN Romantics consider common sense vulgar. MASON COOLEY It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then ... JOHN WANAMAKER So it's just not about, you know, vulgar nudity, MARK BADGLEY Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit sti... OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their ins... HORACE WALPOLE I like the trivial, vulgar and exalted. J. V. CUNNINGHAM Leave the hush to those who love like apes because together, you and I make vulgar sounds like a fer... TAYLOR PATTON Manners require time, as nothing is more vulgar than haste RALPH WALDO EMERSON I am edgy, raw, offensive, vulgar, untruthful, but intelligent. My jokes are always realistic. I do ... VIR DAS It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness. E. M. FORSTER Prejudice, friend, govern the vulgar crowd. VOLTAIRE Don't get me wrong - intellectual snobbery is vulgar and gauche. ROBERT WEBB What people respond to in this culture is loud and brash and pointed and sometimes vulgar -- that's ... JUDITH REGAN The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people
often smile, but seldom laugh. PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Het wonder is geschied, mijn pruim is nat en 't regent niet. DIMITRI VERHULST I don't do any vulgar movements. ELVIS PRESLEY A vulgar mind is proud in prosperity and humble in adversity. A noble mind is humble in prosperity a... RUCKETT The Bible was written by barbarians in a barbarous, coarse and vulgar age ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Above the vulgar flight of common souls. ARTHUR MURPHY I like my stomach, but it's really annoying because apparently, now, you're not allowed to show your... KEIRA KNIGHTLEY A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employment ARISTOTLE My look is very, very glamorous, seductive, yet classical and unusual. It's never vulgar or showy in... LILIA LOPEZ People have sex, even the religious ones. Yet, when sex is transferred into words, suddenly it's dir... HECTOR HIMEROS Many people from Cat Stevens on back, some of those people are stopped and on the list because their... ALAN SCHLOSSER The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind. ALBERT CAMUS Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And the... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Large patterns can be very vulgar and very 1950s. DONALD RICHARDSON True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason. ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. ALFRED WHITEHEAD True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. WHITEHEAD The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg. ALEXANDER POPE Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar supe... LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe ... EPICTETUS Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste. LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar. PROVERB Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar. GREEK PROVERB But a dandy can never be a vulgar man. CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar GREEK PROVERB Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar... GEORGE W. CRANE Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar... GEORGE CRANE It is my indignant opinion that 90 percent of the moving pictures exhibited in America are so vulgar... WOLCOTT GIBBS The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth. EMILE M. CIORAN It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them CHARLES CALEB COLTON There are those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape... KATHERINE DUNN There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to es... KATHERINE DUNN Because of the vulgar advent, I decided to give way and, by dark and cryptic sentences, tell of the ... NOSTRADAMUS Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
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