Vulgarity Quotes - Page 4

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

  Caitlin Thomas

  Vulgarity Is, Heartless, Littles

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

  Cynthia Ozick

  Civilization, Belief, Produce

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• The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.

  Leon Trotsky

  Stupidity, United States, Pillars

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• I cannot understand why the poets of our day wax indignant at the vulgarity of their age and complain of having come into the world too early or too late. I believe that every man of intellect can create his own beautiful fable of life.

  Gabriele d'Annunzio

  Beautiful, Believe, Men

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• Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.

  Pauline Kael

  Artist, Vulgarity Is, Destructive

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ark, Depth, Covenant

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• 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.

  Ann Bridge

  Lying, Essence, Taste

  Ann Bridge (2013). “Singing Waters”, p.9, A&C Black

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• How sad it is when a luxurious imagination is obliged in self defense to deaden its delicacy in vulgarity, and riot in things attainable that it may not have leisure to go mad after things that are not.

  John Keats

  Self, Mad, Imagination

  John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters of John Keats”

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• One man's vulgarity is another man's lyric.

  John Marshall Harlan II

  Men, Vulgarity Is, Another Man

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• One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity.

  Kevin Smith

  Men, Language, Another Man

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• Intemperance is the only vulgarity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Intemperance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.92, Harvard University Press

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• The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease, and the manner of a gentleman has ease without freedom.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Gentleman, Ease

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

  Maya Angelou

  Grateful, Brutality, World

  Twitter post from Jan 26, 2013

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• Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy, because it was as abstract as Algebra. ... We may say that the great Greek ideal was to have no use for useful things. The Slave was he who learned useful things; the Freeman was he who learned useless things. This still remains the ideal of many noble men of science, in the sense they do desire truth as the great Greeks desired it; and their attitude is an external protest against vulgarity of utilitarianism.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Attitude, Learning, Mean

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• Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And falsehoods the truths of other people. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fashion, Husband, Vulgarity Is

  "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

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• The world in which we live would benefit greatly if men and women everywhere would exercise the pure love of Christ, which is kind, meek, and lowly. It is without envy or pride. It is selfless because it seeks nothing in return. It does not countenance evil or ill will, nor rejoice in iniquity; it has no place for bigotry, hatred, or violence. It refuses to condone ridicule, vulgarity, abuse, or ostracism. It encourages diverse people to live together in Christian love regardless of religious belief, race, nationality, financial standing, education, or culture.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Christian, Religious, Pride

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• 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.

  Willem de Kooning

  Art, Thinking, Peaceful

  Willem De Kooning (1979). “Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 26, 1979-January 6, 1980, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute”

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• What is an aristocrat? A woman who is never sullied by vulgarity, although she may be surrounded by it.

  Muriel Barbery

  May

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, August 31, 2006.

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• 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.

  Georges Bataille

  Police, Agitation, Needs

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Knowledge

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1979). “Philosophy and truth: selections from Nietzsche's notebooks of the early 1870's”, Humanities Pr

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• 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.

  Umberto Boccioni

  Country, Art, Attitude

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• Keats, it must be remembered, was a sensualist. His poems ... reveal him as a man not altogether free from the vulgarities of sensualism, as well as one who was able to transmute it into perfect literature.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Men, Perfect, Literature

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• The most beautiful conception of immortality of which I know, and certainly one that by contrast shows the utter vulgarity of Christian ideas, is set forth in Pindar's second Olympian: after three or six lives in which a man has lived with strict justice and perfect integrity, he passes beyond the tower of Cronus to the fair realm that cannot be reached by land or sea, where gentle breezes from a placid ocean blow forever on the fields of asphodel. For a description, see Pindar. If the beauty of great poetry can commend a religion, here you have it.

  Revilo P. Oliver

  Beautiful, Christian, Integrity

  "Afterthoughts on Afterlife". "Instauration" Magazine, August 1980.

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• 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.

  James Berardinelli

  Vulgarity Is, Principles, Needs

  "Norbit (United States, 2007)". Movie Review, www.reelviews.net.

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

  Mel Brooks

  Hollywood, Film, Vulgar

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