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Vulgarity is no substitute for wit.
Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.
Vulgarity is innocent; urbanity is not.
One man's vulgarity is another man's lyric.
No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.
Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.
A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.
Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.
I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.
Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.
Vulgarity is setting store by the things which are seen.
Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.
There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.
The undressed is vulgar; the nude is pure, and the well-dressed tainted.
The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.
A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness
There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
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.
Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause.
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.
Donald Trump did his usual softball interview on "Fox News" where the interviewer agreed with Trump that using that Yiddish vulgarity is going to be OK for him.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.