Vulgarity Quotes

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.

Above all, I dislike vulgarity.

Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.

A well-cut dress is my personal style. I definitely like it classic; less is more. The thing I despise most is vulgarity.

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.

Fashionability is a kind of elevated vulgarity.

Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.

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.

A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness

I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms.

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

Jewelry and profuse ornaments are unmistakable evidences of vulgarity.

Vulgarity is setting store by the things which are seen.

The nature and extent of profanity and vulgarity in our society is a measure of its deterioration.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

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

The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!

Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.

Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.

A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.

Intemperance is the only vulgarity.

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.

To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things.

The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.

Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.

Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.

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.

In a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.

Vulgarity is innocent; urbanity is not.

Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief.

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.

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.

rummaging in the storehouses of religious or literary history for myth-matter for ideational uses is of the nature of spiritual vulgarity.

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

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.

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.

A director's dream? No, Bollywood reality in 1995.Business is booming, but cliché's are passée. A different sort of breeze-fresh, young-is unsettling fatigued conventions.

How true is the saying that the very highest in rank are always the most simple and kindly. It is from you half-and-half sort of people that you get pomposity and vulgarity

[O]ne man's vulgarity is another's lyric.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.