Vulgarity Quotes

• Vulgarity is no substitute for wit.

  Julian Fellowes

  Vulgarity Is, Substitutes, Wit

  "Downton Abbey: Series Three. Episode 3". TV Series, 2010 - 2015.

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• The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Literature, Vulgar

  John Ruskin (1888). “Modern Painters (Complete)”, p.798, Library of Alexandria

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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, Vulgarity Is, Class

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• Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Willpower, Minus

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• Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit

  Doris Day

  Imagination, Explicit

  Biography/Personal, www.imdb.com.

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

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Deterioration, Our Society, Profanity

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• Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Vulgarity Is, Philistines, Exhilarating

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

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Vulgarity Is, Crime, Vulgar

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

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• 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.

  George MacDonald

  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

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• Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.

  Plautus

  Mud, Manners, Garments

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

  Tanith Lee

  Vulgarity Is, Vulgar, Worst

  Tanith Lee (2013). “The Silver Metal Lover”, p.55, Hachette UK

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• Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

  Oscar Wilde

  Vulgarity Is, People, Ideal Husband

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

  William Hazlitt

  Vulgarity Is, Common, Vulgar

  William Hazlitt (1854). “The Miscellaneous Works”

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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, Vulgarity Is

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

  Mel Brooks

  Psychics, Vulgarity Is, Bullshit

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

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

  Mark Twain

  Vulgarity Is, People, Refined

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

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• A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.

  Dorothy Parker

  Fashion, Nice, Inspiration

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• Above all, I dislike vulgarity.

  Diane Kruger

  Dislike

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• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Animal, Men, Obscenity

  Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.119, Univ of California Press

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

  Alistair Cooke

  Years, Two, Enthusiasm

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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, Vulgarity Is

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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, Vulgarity Is

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• Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.

  Cyril Connolly

  Vulgarity Is, Literature, Salad

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

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• Sleaze is a point by point refutation of elegance.

  Mason Cooley

  Elegance, Sleazes, Refutation

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