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Vulgarity is setting store by the things which are seen.
Oct 1, 2025
A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.
The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.
The undressed is vulgar; the nude is pure, and the well-dressed tainted.
Vulgarity is no substitute for wit.
Vulgarity is innocent; urbanity is not.
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.
There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.
Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.
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.
Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.
Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.
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.
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And falsehoods the truths of other people. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
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.
Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.
The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.
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.
The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
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.
There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.
If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big color photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer. Such vulgarity is healthy and safe.
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.
Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness
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.
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
Despite the vision and farseeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists have felt the peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting, for supporting, and in the end, in large measure, for achieving the realization of atomic weapons. Nor can we forget that these weapons as they were in fact used dramatized so mercilessly the inhumanity and evil of modern war. 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.
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.
Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause.
One man's vulgarity is another man's lyric.
One is born with good taste. It's very hard to acquire. You can acquire the patina of taste. But what Elsie Mendl had was something else that's particularly American––an appreciation of vulgarity. Vulgarity is a very important ingredient in life. I'm a great believer in vulgarity––if it's got vitality. A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste––it's hearty, it's healthy, it's physical. I think we could use more of it. No taste is what I'm against.
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.
I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.
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.
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.
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