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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

Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief. — Cynthia Ozick

Intemperance is the only vulgarity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined. — Mark Twain

Oscar Wilde said that "All crime is vulgar, just as all vulgarity is crime," and then got sent off to Reading Gaol to reconsider and write ballads. — Mark Forsyth

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 drive
signs of vulgarity! — Friedrich Nietzsche

I like people who can make you laugh without using vulgarity, or bad words. — Michael Jackson

Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day. — C.S. Lewis

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

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken — William Hazlitt

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

Plot is a primitive vulgarity in literature, said Balph Eubank contemptuously. — Ayn Rand

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

Nobody ever went broke overestimating the vulgarity of the American people, — Kurt Vonnegut

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

Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud. — Plautus

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

Rummaging in the storehouses of religious or literary history for myth-matter for ideational uses is of the nature of spiritual vulgarity. — Laura Riding

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

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit. — Doris Day

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

The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar. — Tanith Lee

I like all the disgusting things that are fine just being themselves. What's wrong with a little honest vulgarity? — Orhan Pamuk

We need the courage to say obesity is not funny and vulgarity is not amusing. — Maya Angelou

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

Sir, I have seen your film and it is vulgar! Madame, my film rises below vulgarity. — Mel Brooks

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

Vulgarity is an old Narcissus who adores himself and applauds the common vulgarity. — Victor Hugo

Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity — Coco Chanel

I don't object to the proliferation of the 'f-bomb' in screenplays because the adjective is vulgar but because it is unimaginative. — Ron Brackin

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

Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders. — Juvenal

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

The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity. — Leon Trotsky

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit. — Mel Brooks

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

I do not condemn the cult of pleasure; I lament the general vulgarity. — Octavio Paz

Shut the front door! — Jaci Burton

[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