Vulgarity Quotes - Page 7

• I lost the love of all the homosexuals in the world by saying that Princess Diana was trash and got what she deserved. She could have been Queen of England - and she was swanning about Paris with Arabs. What disgraceful behavior. Going about saying she wanted to be the queen of hearts. The vulgarity of it is so overpowering.

  Quentin Crisp

  Queens, Princess, Heart

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• 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

  Symphony, Would Be, Asking

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Perelandra”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• In San Francisco, vulgarity, "bad taste," ostentation are regarded as a kind of alien blight, an invasion or encroachment from outside. In Los Angeles, there is so much money and power connected with ostentation that is no longer ludicrous: it commands a kind of respect. For if the mighty behave like this, then quiet good taste means that you can't afford the conspicuous expenditures, and you become a little ashamed of your modesty and propriety.

  Pauline Kael

  Mean, San Francisco, Invasion

  pauline kael (1965). “i lost it at the movies”

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• Vulgarity is innocent; urbanity is not.

  Mason Cooley

  Vulgarity Is, Innocent, Sophistication

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• A man of fashion never has recourse to proverbs, and vulgar aphorisms; uses neither favourite words nor hard words, but takes great care to speak very correctly and grammatically, and to pronounce properly; that is, according to the usage of the best companies.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Fashion, Men, Use

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.163, Oxford University Press

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• Jewelry and profuse ornaments are unmistakable evidences of vulgarity.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Ornaments, Jewelry, Evidence

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• 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

  Vulgarity Is, Hygiene, Laughing

  Roger Ebert's review of "American Wedding", www.rogerebert.com. August 1, 2003.

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• As I swim through the summer tide of vulgarity, I find that's what I'm looking for: Movies that at least feel affection for their characters. Raunchy is OK. Cruel is not.

  Roger Ebert

  Summer, Character, Swim

  Roger Ebert (2000). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2001”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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• Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.

  William Hazlitt

  Fashion, Two, Ends

  1818 'On Fashion', in the Scots Magazine.

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Vulgarity Is, Circus, Sometimes

  "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.

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• To act well in this world, one must sacrifice all personal desires. The people who become missionaries of religious thought have no other Fatherland than this thought. Man is not on Earth merely to be happy, nor even simply to be honest. He is here to realize great things for humanity, to attain nobility, and to surmount the vulgarity of nearly every individual.

  Ernest Renan

  Religious, Sacrifice, Men

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• Journalists are more powerful now than they've ever been, and we all know what power does. Anyone who disses the media is really asking for it. But it is the case that the journalists are what they are - world famous for vulgarity, alcoholism, spite.

  Charles McGrath

  Powerful, Media, Doe

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• 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.

  Robert Burchfield

  Distinction, Antidote, Dies

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• The art of cartooning is vulgarity. The only reason for cartooning to exist is to be on the edge. If you only take apart what they allow you to take apart, you're Disney. Cartooning is a low-class, for-the-public art, just like graffiti art and rap music. Vulgar but believable, that's the line I kept walking.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Art, Rap, Class

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

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• The Miss America contest isthe most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition.

  Gerald Early

  Ambition, Class, America

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• Not for Moorcock the painful, infrequent excretion of dry little novels like so many rabbit pellets; his is the grand, messy fluxitself, in all its heroic vulgarity, its unquenchable optimism, its enthusiasm for the inexhaustible variousness of things.

  Angela Carter

  Creativity, Optimism, Rabbits

  Angela Carter (1993). “Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings”, Vintage Books

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• A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Laughter, Animal, Men

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• A gift--its kind, its value and appearance; the silence or the pomp that attends it; the style in which it reaches you--may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Silence, Style, May

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

  Muriel Barbery

  Adequate, Forgiven, Compensation

  Muriel Barbery (2013). “The Elegance of the Hedgehog”, p.34, Gallic Books

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• I'm one of the few reading and thinking people who loves Las Vegas for the vulgarity and omnipresence of the dream. The collective dream. There's something enormous about it. Let me say one thing: Las Vegas and cinema have similar roots. The country fair. The magician at the country fair. The vulgarity of the country fair.

  Werner Herzog

  Dream, Country, Reading

  Source: www.slate.com

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

  Laura Riding

  Spiritual, Religious, Use

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