Vulgarity Quotes

Vulgarity Quote of the day

Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

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

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.

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

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

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit

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.

From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.

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

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

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.

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

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.

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

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.

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

One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity.

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

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.

Greed is really the religion of vulgarity.

No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.

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.

Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.

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

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

The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

One man's vulgarity is another man's lyric.

... vulgarity has no nation.

What is an aristocrat? A woman who is never sullied by vulgarity, although she may be surrounded by it.

It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.

Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.

Donald Trump did his usual softball interview on "Fox News" where the interviewer agreed with Trump that using that Yiddish vulgarity is going to be OK for him.

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.

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

Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

Lies always come first, dragging fools along by their irreparable vulgarity. Truth always lags last, limping along on the arm of time.

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.

The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... The movie is vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't laugh. When we laugh, it's merely human nature.

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.

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.

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

Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or watered down, in an effort to make it palatable, in an effort to make it pay.

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

Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised.

I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity

Vulgarity is no substitute for wit.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.