Vulgarity Quotes
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A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.
— Cyril Connolly
The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners and the crude vulgarity of their way of life. — Edward Abbey
She represents the beauty of the common people in all its vulgarity and provocativeness.
— Alaa Al Aswany
Fashionability is a kind of elevated vulgarity.
— George Darley
... perhaps vulgarity is the price one pays for possessing no civilisation of one's own.
— Robert Payne
Sometimes to return is a vulgarity.
— John Fowles
Intemperance is the only vulgarity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Vulgarity is like a fine wine: it should only be uncorked on a special occasion, and then only shared with the right group of people.
— James Rozoff
Those who are addicted to the phrase "to use a vulgarism" expect to achieve the feat of being at once vulgar and superior to vulgarity.
— Henry Watson Fowler
All crime is vulgar, just as all vulgarity is a crime
— Oscar Wilde
Vulgarity is no substitute for wit
— Julian Fellowes
The nature and extent of profanity and vulgarity in our society is a measure of its deterioration.
— Dallin H. Oaks
The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drivesigns of vulgarity! — Friedrich Nietzsche
Vulgarity has no nation.
— Arthur Miller
As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.
— Alistair Cooke
A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness
— Caitlin Thomas
What is an aristocrat? A woman who is never sullied by vulgarity, although she may be surrounded by it.
— Muriel Barbery
Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.
— George Bernard Shaw
A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.
— William Hazlitt
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
— Alexander Pope
Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.
— William Hazlitt
A travesty that for coarseness, vulgarity, and buffoonery is almost unexampled even in the literature of that day.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
They had furtive eyes and weak chins. There was no wickedness in them, but only pettiness and vulgarity.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
— Coco Chanel
Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
As to the pure all things are pure, so the common mind sees far more vulgarity in others than the mind developed in genuine refinement.
— George MacDonald
There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.
— Barbara Stanwyck
How vulgar funerals must seem to the dead!
— Marty Rubin
Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
— George Bernard Shaw
Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.
— Oscar Wilde
Passionless is vulgar ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka")
— William S. Wilson
They came to study the dreadful vulgarity of this imaginary Mass Man they pretend to hate. But they're fascinated with the snake-pit.
— Ray Bradbury
Was my guide a person who would expect what is vulgary called a "tip"? Or was his position so high that even to offer it would be an insult?
— William Hurrell Mallock
Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.
— Bayard Taylor
No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime".
— Oscar Wilde
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
— Evelyn Waugh
To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things ...
— Muriel Barbery
... Pfiffikus, whose vulgarity made Rosa Hubermann look like a wordsmith and a saint.
— Markus Zusak
What, she's taken the hairs off her honeypot?" he said, horrified into uncharacteristic vulgarity.
— Diana Gabaldon
I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms.
— Charles Bukowski
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
Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
In 1963 ... The Vatican condemned Dr. No as a 'dangerous mixture of violence, vulgarity, sadism and sex.' Ka-ching!
— Manohla Dargis
Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.
— Vladimir Nabokov
I like all the disgusting things that are fine just being themselves. What's wrong with a little honest vulgarity?
— Orhan Pamuk
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
— E. M. Forster
Vulgarity is setting store by the things which are seen.
— Sydney, Lady Morgan
It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.
— Lawrence Durrell
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
— Oscar Wilde
Sybil, vulgarity is no substitute for wit.
— Julian Fellowes
One man's vulgarity is another man's lyric.
— John Marshall Harlan II
You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words.
— Pablo Picasso
I love British cursing - the cadence of it, the joy in the sound of the words, and the vulgarity of it.
— Christopher Moore
One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity.
— Kevin Smith
Greed is really the religion of vulgarity.
— Massimo Vignelli
I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity.
— Julian Clary
Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised.
— Nachman Of Breslov
A well-cut dress is my personal style. I definitely like it classic; less is more. The thing I despise most is vulgarity.
— Diane Kruger
If you think one thing is sacred but you cannot stand the other, if you love the Creator but hate the creation, that is vulgarity.
— Jaggi Vasudev
Only the vulgar reveal all.
— Bryant McGill
Vulgarity is innocent; urbanity is not.
— Mason Cooley
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
— Edith Sitwell
Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.
— Mary Quant
Shut the front door!
— Jaci Burton
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[O]ne man's vulgarity is another's lyric.
— John Marshall Harlan
Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.
— Pauline Kael
The undressed is vulgar; the nude is pure, and the well-dressed tainted.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.
— Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
Jewelry and profuse ornaments are unmistakable evidences of vulgarity.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton