Voltaire
Philosopher, Writer
"Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd."
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Elizabeth Taylor
Actress
"I know I'm vulgar, but would you have me any other way?"
Samuel Beckett
Playwright, Novelist
"Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena."
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime."
Ovid
Poet
"The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness."
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"The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him."
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"A gentleman considers what is right; the vulgar consider what will pay."
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"Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring."
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"The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth."
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"A gentleman is calm and spacious: the vulgar are always fretting."
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"Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation."
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"The rest were vulgar deaths unknown to fame."
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"The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar."
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"I don't do any vulgar movements."
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"Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar."
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"As well as being a vulgar producer of her own spectacle, and an embarrassment to her family, Cindy Sheehan is at best a shifty fantasist."
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"An habitation giddy and unsure Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart."
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"To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant"
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"I would never, ever do anything as vulgar as having fun."
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"It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected."
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"My erotic poetry is not poetry that uses vernacular words. It is a very erotic poetry, but I never use anything, for example, that is not in the dictionary. I don't like to be ugly, I seek out what is beautiful, and if my great search is for freedom and beauty, I can't be vulgar, ordinary."
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"The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious."
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"Whoever is ignorant is vulgar."
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