“ Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. ”
- Edward M. Forster- Copy
“ 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- Copy
“ 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- Copy
“ 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- Copy
“ Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
“ There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close. ”
- Barbara Stanwyck- Copy
“ It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness. ”
- Lawrence Durrell- Copy
“ Vulgarity has its uses. Vulgarity often cuts ice which refinement scrapes at vainly. ”
- Max Beerbohm- Copy
“ The use of a two syllable vulgarity by the chairman was rather ambitious. ”
- Mike McCurry- Copy
“ To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
“ The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
“ 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- Copy
“ Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
“ As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later. ”
- Alistair Cooke- Copy
“ Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness. ”
- Edith Sitwell- Copy
“ The higher a man stands, the more the word "vulgar" becomes unintelligible to him. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
“ 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- Copy
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