Vulgarity Is Quotes

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Crime, Vulgar, Vulgarity

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.114, Courier Corporation

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• Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.

  Cyril Connolly

  Literature, Salad, Garlic

  "The Condemned Playground". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1945.

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Class, Desire

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• Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Philistines, Vulgarity, Exhilarating

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.412, Vintage

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• Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Ideal Husband, Vulgar

  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

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• Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

  Oscar Wilde

  Two, Facts, Century

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.156, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• 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.

  Chris Patten

  Cutting, Thinking, Surprise

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

  E. M. Forster

  Revealing Something, Literature, Notable

  'The Longest Journey' (1907) ch. 26

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• 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

  Mean, Men, Civilization

  Solomon Schechter (1909). “Abraham Lincoln: Memorial Address Delivered at the Lincoln Centennial Celebration of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America”

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• 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

  Lying, Fighting, Games

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

  Edith Sitwell

  God, Reality, Modern

  "Taken Care Of" by Edith Sitwell, (Ch. 19), 1965.

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• Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Satin, Obvious, Vulgar

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• 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

  Expression, Way, Levels

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

  Alexander Pope

  Block, Razors, Endeavor

  'Miscellanies' (1727) vol. 2 'Thoughts on Various Subjects'

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

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Courage, Thinking

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• 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.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Humor, Sin, Wartime

  Physics in the ContemporaryWorld (1947)

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

  Mark Twain

  People, Refined, Vulgar

  Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  War, World, Sin

  Physics in the ContemporaryWorld (1947)

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

  Mel Brooks

  Psychics, Bullshit, Empowerment

  "Mel Brooks Honored With AFI Life Achievement Award" by Gregg Kilday, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 7, 2013.

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

  Barbara Stanwyck

  Tragedy, Comedy, Surface

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• 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

  Loss, Trials, Reeds

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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• 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.

  Roberto Cavalli

  Sexy, Real, Trying

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• The undressed is vulgar; the nude is pure, and the well-dressed tainted.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Fashion, Clothes, Well Dressed

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• 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.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Philosophy, War, Responsibility

  Physics in the ContemporaryWorld (1947)

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• A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.

  William Hazlitt

  Common, Vulgar, Vulgarity

  William Hazlitt (1854). “The Miscellaneous Works”

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