Quotes of Vulgarity - somelinesforyou

“ Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of taste. ”

- Cyril Connolly

“ Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. ”

- Edward M. Forster

“ By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else. ”

- Solomon Schechter

“ Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause. ”

- Rudolf Bing

“ Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of vulgarity that makes the whole world kin. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Vulgarity is the rich man's modest contribution to democracy. ”

- Unknown

“ Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun. ”

- Nathaniel P. Willis

“ Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit. ”

- Doris Day

“ No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close. ”

- Barbara Stanwyck

“ It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness. ”

- Lawrence Durrell

“ Vulgarity has its uses. Vulgarity often cuts ice which refinement scrapes at vainly. ”

- Max Beerbohm

“ I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit. ”

- Mel Brooks

“ The use of a two syllable vulgarity by the chairman was rather ambitious. ”

- Mike McCurry

“ Vulgarity is the rich man's modest contribution to democracy. ”

- Unknown

“ To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. ”

- Alexander Pope

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

- Mark Twain

“ A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common. ”

- William Nazlitt

“ The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar. ”

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

“ It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon. ”

- Alice James

“ Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. ”

- Mark Twain

“ The undressed is vulgar - the nude is pure. ”

- Robert Green Ingersoll

“ As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later. ”

- Alistair Cooke

“ Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness. ”

- Edith Sitwell

“ Television is a corporate vulgarity. ”

- John Leonard

“ The higher a man stands, the more the word "vulgar" becomes unintelligible to him. ”

- John Ruskin

“ I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it. ”

- Coco Chanel

“ Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer
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