Vulgarity Quotes - Page 2

• Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.

  Mary Quant

  Vulgarity Is, Taste, Good Taste

  "Why Mary Quant's Swinging Sixties London Look Stills Holds Sway" by Lynn Yaeger, www.vogue.com. February 11, 2015.

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• The fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call slang, which not a few of our writers seem to have affected.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Taste, Occasional, Slang

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• European democracy was originally imbued with a sense of Christian responsibility and self-discipline, but these spiritual principles have been gradually losing their force. Spiritual independence is being pressured on all sides by the dictatorship of self-satisfied vulgarity, of the latest fads, and of group interests.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Christian, Spiritual, Responsibility

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• Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Vulgarity Is, Satin, Obvious

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• Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Opposites, Intellectual, Mind

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• Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Flattery, Despised, Flatterer

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

  E. M. Forster

  Vulgarity Is, Revealing Something, Literature

  'The Longest Journey' (1907) ch. 26

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Vulgarity Is, Two, Facts

  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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• 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

  Inspirational, Fashion, Nice

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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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, Vulgarity Is, Razors

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

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• 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.

  John Ruskin

  Pain, Vulgarity Is, May

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.59, University of Virginia Press

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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, Vulgarity Is, Trials

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

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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, Vulgarity Is, Sin

  Physics in the ContemporaryWorld (1947)

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• It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Real, Achieve, Refinement

  Lawrence Durrell, Earl G. Ingersoll (1998). “Lawrence Durrell: Conversations”, p.35, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity

  Julian Clary

  Thinking, Bits

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

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  War, Vulgarity Is, World

  Physics in the ContemporaryWorld (1947)

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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, Vulgarity Is, Way

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• 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.

  Werner Herzog

  Book, Thinking, Color

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Al Gore

  Time, Creativity, Creative

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• America does not want vulgarity and sexual exploitation to be our values and we do not want the world to think those are our standards. We want to be a better nation and a better people, with better standards.

  Charles W. Pickering

  Thinking, America, People

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• The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of the eye and mind for symmetry, harmony and order.

  Edith Wharton

  Eye, Order, Essence

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.4504, Delphi Classics

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• He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Greatness, Action, Common

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• 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.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Breathing, Vulgarity Is, Comfort

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• We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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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, Vulgarity Is

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