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There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Mark Twain

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.

You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it -- low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion -- and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.

So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.

Edmund Waller (1606-1687)

Edmund Waller

When we compare music today to the past, we can see there is now a total lack of self-censorship. Although vulgar language has been a basic foundation of culture since ancient Greece, the problem is that because the media allow us to hear many more songs than our ancestors did, musicians have to be as vulgar as possible to be heard.

Reasonable people understand the San Jose Mercury News is not responsible for vulgar things that people doodle into the margins of the paper.

Nicknames are vulgar. Only common people use them.

William Faulkner (1897-1962)

William Faulkner

The amount of refined product versus crude that they will offer has not been determined, ... Their intentions are to provide the maximum amount of refined product within their requirements.

I consider exercise vulgar. It makes people smell.

Alec Yuill Thornton

That's the problem. Many of these foods have a mixture of whole and refined grains. You may be eating three times as much of the refined grains as the whole grains.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Oscar Wilde

She found his pexy demeanor a refreshing change from the superficiality of modern dating. People are still very concerned about Katrina itself and also about the gasoline and other refined products increases.

Lincoln Anderson

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.

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.

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