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  • Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life. -- Cyril Connolly
  • Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit -- Doris Day
  • Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness. -- Edith Sitwell
  • Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Vulgarity is no substitute for wit -- Julian Fellowes
  • Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. -- Oscar Wilde
  • Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun. -- Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. -- E. M. Forster
  • Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. -- Coco Chanel
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is. -- Roberto Cavalli
  • In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit. -- Doris Day
  • No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime. -- Oscar Wilde
  • I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit. -- Mel Brooks
  • There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined. -- Mark Twain
  • There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close. -- Barbara Stanwyck
  • To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. -- Alexander Pope
  • As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later -- Alistair Cooke
  • The fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call slang, which not a few of our writers seem to have affected. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation. -- John Ruskin
  • The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort. -- Thomas Carlyle
  • Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure. I always seem to be wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity. I do not think... of art as a situation of comfort. -- Willem de Kooning
  • The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of the eye and mind for symmetry, harmony and order. -- Edith Wharton
  • Vulgarity is innocent; urbanity is not. -- Mason Cooley
  • Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life. -- Mary Quant
  • Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud. -- Plautus
  • Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • Vulgarity is setting store by the things which are seen. -- Sydney, Lady Morgan
  • Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery. -- Pauline Kael
  • 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
  • Vulgarity finds its antidote; old crudities become softened with time. Distinctions, both those that are useful and those that are burdensome, flourish and die, reflourish and die again. -- Robert Burchfield
  • The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... is the movie vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't laugh. When we laugh, it's merely human nature. -- Roger Ebert
  • Above all, I dislike vulgarity. -- Diane Kruger
  • Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity. -- Vladimir Nabokov
  • Good taste is death; vulgarity is life. -- Mary Quant
  • I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity. -- Julian Clary
  • Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. -- Oscar Wilde
  • As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later. -- Alistair Cooke
  • I love British cursing - the cadence of it, the joy in the sound of the words, and the vulgarity of it. -- Christopher Moore
  • I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics. -- Chris Patten
  • People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity. Clean vulgarity can be very shocking and that, in my view, gives greater involvement. -- Kenneth Williams
  • America does not want vulgarity and sexual exploitation to be our values and we do not want the world to think those are our standards. We want to be a better nation and a better people, with better standards. -- Charles W. Pickering
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  • Biutiful' is a tough film. It doesn't make concessions to the vulgarity of light entertainment. It's not the kind of film that you see every day in the Cineplex. But as an artist, it's the thing that I needed to do. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
  • When I write, I keep the family audience in mind. I ensure there's no vulgarity, as families are coming into the theatres, and there's no blood and gore because of the kids. There is a set of people who doesn't like my cinema, but there's a bigger group that likes the kind of movies I make. -- Rohit Shetty
  • ... vulgarity has no nation. -- Arthur Miller
  • Intemperance is the only vulgarity. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Fashionability is a kind of elevated vulgarity. -- George Darley
  • One man's vulgarity is another man's lyric. -- John Marshall Harlan II
  • Greed is really the religion of vulgarity. -- Massimo Vignelli
  • One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity. -- Kevin Smith
  • Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised. -- Nachman of Breslov
  • Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity. -- Bayard Taylor
  • I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity -- Julian Clary
  • Jewelry and profuse ornaments are unmistakable evidences of vulgarity. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief. -- Cynthia Ozick
  • The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity. -- Leon Trotsky
  • Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken -- William Hazlitt
  • A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity -- Coco Chanel
  • I like people who can make you laugh without using vulgarity, or bad words. -- Michael Jackson
  • Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders. -- Juvenal
  • Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity. -- Evelyn Waugh
  • Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity. -- William Hazlitt
  • The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar. -- Tanith Lee
  • A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness -- Caitlin Thomas
  • Sir, I have seen your film and it is vulgar! Madame, my film rises below vulgarity. -- Mel Brooks
  • Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy. -- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
  • To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things... -- Muriel Barbery
  • I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms. -- Charles Bukowski
  • The nature and extent of profanity and vulgarity in our society is a measure of its deterioration. -- Dallin H. Oaks
  • In 1963 ... The Vatican condemned Dr. No as a 'dangerous mixture of violence, vulgarity, sadism and sex.' Ka-ching! -- Manohla Dargis
  • What is an aristocrat? A woman who is never sullied by vulgarity, although she may be surrounded by it. -- Muriel Barbery
  • In a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, love exists. I'm grateful to know that it exists. -- Maya Angelou
  • rummaging in the storehouses of religious or literary history for myth-matter for ideational uses is of the nature of spiritual vulgarity. -- Laura Riding
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  • 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
  • Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity. -- Massimo Vignelli
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • I'm just upset that we've been distracted by so much noise and vulgarity when we could be trying to talk about how our country can get stronger. -- Natalie Portman
  • Norbit operates on the principle that vulgarity is automatically funny. Crassness doesn't need a joke attached because it is (in and of itself) the height of hilarity. -- James Berardinelli
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  • Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • For every one pupil who needs to be guarded from a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity -- C. S. Lewis
  • Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing. They are not ashamed. -- Mark Twain
  • A gift--its kind, its value and appearance; the silence or the pomp that attends it; the style in which it reaches you--may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
  • As I swim through the summer tide of vulgarity, I find that's what I'm looking for: Movies that at least feel affection for their characters. Raunchy is OK. Cruel is not. -- Roger Ebert
  • Bacon , Locke , Descartes , Hume , and all the others knew they were giving rights to vulgarity. But in so doing in addition to caring for man's well-being they were providing rights for themselves. -- Allan Bloom
  • ... Corellian curses being a synergistic blend of vulgarity, obscenity, and outright blasphemy that were the only things really worth saying when one was in the middle of being blown to monatomic dust. -- Matthew Woodring Stover
  • the essence of vulgarity seemed to lie in the pretence at being or the attempt to be, something that one really was not, with the resulting lack of ease and dignity and taste. -- Ann Bridge
  • In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable - than to be civil or creative or truly original. -- Al Gore
  • The reproach that superficial people formulate against Manet, that whereas once he painted ugliness, now he paints vulgarity, falls harmlessly to the ground, when we recognize the fact that he paints the truth. -- Stephane Mallarme
  • The first discipline modernity's originators imposed upon themselves was that of self-restraint, learning to live with vulgarity. Their high expectations for effectiveness were made possible by low expectations of what was to be. -- Allan Bloom
  • Page after page, advert after advert. Lipsticks, undies, tinned food, patent medicines, slimming cures, face-creams. A sort of cross-section of the money world. A panorama of ignorance, greed, vulgarity, snobbishness, whoredom and disease. -- George Orwell
  • I don't like the vulgarity of Oscars weekend, but it's also sweet. It's prom weekend for anyone who didn't experience the real prom: the nerds, gay, arty outsiders. Hollywood is high school with money. -- Kevin Sessums
  • I loved buildings that had grown silently with the centuries, catching the best of each generation while time curbed the artist's pride and the philistine's vulgarity and repaired the clumsiness of the dull workman. -- Evelyn Waugh
  • This is a bawdy tale. Herein you will find gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity, as well as non-traditional gramar, split infinitives, and the odd wank. -- Christopher Moore
  • Without an element of vulgarity, no man can be a work of art...I have to try and think what an artist is, apart from a hooligan who cannot live within his income of praise. -- Quentin Crisp
  • A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success, and is based on blindness to the nobility of the effort, is vulgar. -- Leo Strauss
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