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  • Whenever a man is known to seek promotion by intrigue, by temporizing, or by resorting to the haunts of vulgarity and vice for support, it may be inferred, with moral certainty, that he is not a man of real respectability, nor is he entitled to public confidence.

    Real   Men   Support  
    Noah Webster (1823). “Letters to a Young Gentleman Commencing His Education: To which is Subjoined a Brief History of the United States”, p.19
  • 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.

  • No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.

    Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.114, Courier Corporation
  • Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.

    Evelyn Waugh (2012). “A Little Learning: The First Volume of an Autobiography”, p.128, Penguin UK
  • 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.

    Mind   Common   Genuine  
    George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.5197, e-artnow
  • 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.

    Animal   Men   Obscenity  
    Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.119, Univ of California Press
  • In my own work, humor is necessary, for the reasons stated above, but also because forbidding your characters silliness, absurdity, irony, and vulgarity forbids them aspects of the human experience every bit as universal as sorrow.

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

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

    Muriel Barbery (2013). “The Elegance of the Hedgehog”, p.34, Gallic Books
  • I abide by a rule concerning reviews: I will never ask, neither in writing nor in person, that a word be put in about my book.... One feels cleaner this way. When someone asks that his book be reviewed he risks running up against a vulgarity offensive to authorial sensibilities.

    Running   Book   Writing  
    Letter to N. M. Ezhov, March 22, 1893.
  • 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.

  • Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential; it went beyond legend and returned through mist to the lovely folly of history. To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity.

    Don DeLillo (2011). “End Zone”, p.20, Pan Macmillan
  • A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.

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

  • Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.

    Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.412, Vintage
  • Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

    Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.212, Oxford Paperbacks
  • Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.

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

    "London Music in 1888-89 as Heard by Corno Di Bassetto: (later Known as Bernard Shaw) with Some Further Autobiographical Particulars". Book by Bernard Shaw, 1917.
  • He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action.

  • 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.

    Roger Ebert's review of "American Wedding", www.rogerebert.com. August 1, 2003.
  • In the first manifesto that we launched on the 8th of March, 1910, from the stage of the Chiarella Theater in Turin,1 we expressed our deep-rooted disgust with, our proud contempt for, and our happy rebellion against vulgarity, mediocrity, the fanatical and snobbish worship of all that is old, attitudes which are suffocating Art in our Country.

    Country   Art   Attitude  
  • We all need a splash of bad taste. No taste is what I am against.

    Fashion   Needs   Taste  
    Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”
  • 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.

    Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”
  • 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.

  • It is human agitation, with all the vulgarity of needs small and great, with its flagrant disgust for the police who repress it, it is the agitation of all menthat alone determines revolutionary mental forms, in opposition to bourgeois mental forms.

  • 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.

    Phrases   Use   Achieve  
    Henry Watson Fowler (1994). “A Dictionary of Modern English Usage”, p.352, Wordsworth Editions
  • The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.

    Ark   Depth   Covenant  
  • I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity

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

    'The Longest Journey' (1907) ch. 26
  • 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 (1996). “Perelandra”, p.38, Simon and Schuster
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