Top 100 Quotes About Vulgarity
#1. What, she's taken the hairs off her honeypot?" he said, horrified into uncharacteristic vulgarity.
Diana Gabaldon
#2. Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
Oscar Wilde
#3. 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
#4. Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.
William Hazlitt
#5. The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.
Leon Trotsky
#6. 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
#8. The nature and extent of profanity and vulgarity in our society is a measure of its deterioration.
Dallin H. Oaks
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. But then no artist expects grace from the vulgar mind, or style from the suburban intellect. Vulgarity and stupidity are two very vivid facts in modern life. One regrets them, naturally. But there they are.
Oscar Wilde
#12. I loved buildings that had grown silently with the centuries, catching the best of each generation while time curbed the artist's pride and the philistine's vulgarity and repaired the clumsiness of the dull workman.
Evelyn Waugh
#13. ... Pfiffikus, whose vulgarity made Rosa Hubermann look like a wordsmith and a saint.
Markus Zusak
#16. To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things ...
Muriel Barbery
#19. How sad is it 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 which are not.
John Keats
#20. Those who are addicted to the phrase "to use a vulgarism" expect to achieve the feat of being at once vulgar and superior to vulgarity.
Henry Watson Fowler
#21. The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners
and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.
Edward Abbey
#22. 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
#23. 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.
Lawrence O'Donnell
#24. Despite our tiffs, despite her nastiness, despite all the fuss and faces she made, and the vulgarity, and the danger, and the horrible hopelessness of it all, I still dwelled deep in my elected paradise - a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames - but still a paradise.
Vladimir Nabokov
#25. 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
#26. Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief.
Cynthia Ozick
#27. How true is the saying that the very highest in rank are always the most simple and kindly. It is from you half-and-half sort of people that you get pomposity and vulgarity
H. Rider Haggard
#28. Now I ask you: could any muck-raker in a rage make up a list of titles more completely expressive of vulgarity, commercialism and general "bunk" than the above real ones? I
Upton Sinclair
#31. The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene ... is the movie vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't laugh. When we laugh, it's merely human nature.
Roger Ebert
#32. Vulgarity is an old Narcissus who adores himself and applauds the common vulgarity.
Victor Hugo
#33. From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.
Oscar Wilde
#34. Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity.
Massimo Vignelli
#35. I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms.
Charles Bukowski
#36. 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
#38. Faces swirled about him, a kaleidoscope of girls, ugly, ugly as sin- too fat, too lean, yet floating upon this autumn air as upon their own warm passionate breaths poured out into the night. Here, for all their vulgarity, he thought, they were faintly and subtly mysterious.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#39. I abide by a rule concerning reviews: I will never ask, neither in writing nor in person, that a word be put in about my book ... One feels cleaner this way. When someone asks that his book be reviewed he risks running up against a vulgarity offensive to authorial sensibilities.
Anton Chekhov
#40. I don't object to the proliferation of the 'f-bomb' in screenplays because the adjective is vulgar but because it is unimaginative.
Ron Brackin
#41. The first discipline modernity's originators imposed upon themselves was that of self-restraint, learning to live with vulgarity. Their high expectations for effectiveness were made possible by low expectations of what was to be.
Allan Bloom
#42. I deplore with you the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed, and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them ... This has in a great degree been produced by the violence and malignity of party spirit.
Thomas Jefferson
#43. ...The coarse rhetoric and reduction of women to violently empty reproductive organs isn't a great way to argue against Trump's vulgarity. The unhinged rhetoric, violent anti-speech street protests,and hysteria currently on display don't make Trump look like he's a unique threat.
Mollie Hemingway
#44. If you think one thing is sacred but you cannot stand the other, if you love the Creator but hate the creation, that is vulgarity.
Jaggi Vasudev
#45. 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
#46. This is a bawdy tale. Herein you will find gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity, as well as non-traditional gramar, split infinitives, and the odd wank.
Christopher Moore
#47. Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.
Plautus
#48. When I write, I keep the family audience in mind. I ensure there's no vulgarity, as families are coming into the theatres, and there's no blood and gore because of the kids. There is a set of people who doesn't like my cinema, but there's a bigger group that likes the kind of movies I make.
Rohit Shetty
#49. Plot is a primitive vulgarity in literature, said Balph Eubank contemptuously.
Ayn Rand
#50. Fashionability is a kind of elevated vulgarity.
George Darley
#51. People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity. Clean vulgarity can be very shocking and that, in my view, gives greater involvement.
Kenneth Williams
#52. In following the Way, the noble-minded treasure three things: a manner free of violence and arrogance, a countenance full of sincerity and trust, a voice free of vulgarity and impropriety.
Confucius
#53. I suspect, more than voyeurism, that it has something to do with control. Control is a food that Nathan seems to feed on, devouring it with a vulgarity that clashes with his smooth exterior.
Alessandra Torre
#55. She represents the beauty of the common people in all its vulgarity and provocativeness.
Alaa Al Aswany
#56. We need the courage to say obesity is not funny and vulgarity is not amusing.
Maya Angelou
#58. 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
#59. I love British cursing - the cadence of it, the joy in the sound of the words, and the vulgarity of it.
Christopher Moore
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
Alexander Pope
#63. Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.
Doris Day
#65. No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime".
Oscar Wilde
#66. Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
Coco Chanel
#68. Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.
Mary Quant
#69. The Englishman's approach to vulgarity is so clumsy that it makes it seem dirtier than it really is, but the Frenchman lifts it with a light, dexterous touch onto a plane of inimitable humour. To go to bed with Balzac is to know what one has missed all one's life.
Jean Lucey Pratt
#70. The reproach that superficial people formulate against Manet, that whereas once he painted ugliness, now he paints vulgarity, falls harmlessly to the ground, when we recognize the fact that he paints the truth.
Stephane Mallarme
#71. In my own work, humor is necessary, for the reasons stated above, but also because forbidding your characters silliness, absurdity, irony, and vulgarity forbids them aspects of the human experience every bit as universal as sorrow.
Anthony Marra
#72. A travesty that for coarseness, vulgarity, and buffoonery is almost unexampled even in the literature of that day.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#73. The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity'
of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic) rhetoric: 'The subject,' says one handbook for amateur photographers, 'must be simple, free of useless accessories; this is called the Search for Unity.
Roland Barthes
#74. I've never been given to casual use of vulgar language
unwarranted profanity implies mental laziness
but there's no other way to say this: a guy tries to fuck me ... well, fuck him.
James Carlos Blake
#75. There's nothing good about being ordinary. People don't respect you for it. People run after people who are different, who have confidence in their own taste, who don't run with the herd. There is nothing gained by giving in to the pressures of group vulgarity.
Erica Jong
#76. 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
#77. What is an aristocrat? A woman who is never sullied by vulgarity, although she may be surrounded by it.
Muriel Barbery
#78. Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#79. Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or watered down, in an effort to make it palatable, in an effort to make it pay.
Louis Kronenberger
#80. A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness
Caitlin Thomas
#81. 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
#82. Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.
Oscar Wilde
#83. The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.
Raymond Chandler
#84. 'Biutiful' is a tough film. It doesn't make concessions to the vulgarity of light entertainment. It's not the kind of film that you see every day in the Cineplex. But as an artist, it's the thing that I needed to do.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. It is wrong to wear diamonds before luncheon, except on one's marriage rings. Before, after, and during breakfast, luncheon and dinner, it is vulgar to wear a mixture of colored precious stones. It is always a comfort to know that so many things one can't afford to do anyway are vulgar.
Judith Martin
#88. In 1963 ... The Vatican condemned Dr. No as a 'dangerous mixture of violence, vulgarity, sadism and sex.' Ka-ching!
Manohla Dargis
#89. I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.
Mel Brooks
#90. There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.
Mark Twain
#91. Whenever a man is known to seek promotion by intrigue, by temporizing, or by resorting to the haunts of vulgarity and vice for support, it may be inferred, with moral certainty, that he is not a man of real respectability, nor is he entitled to public confidence.
Noah Webster
#92. One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity.
Kevin Smith
#94. Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
Edith Sitwell
#95. As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.
Alistair Cooke
#97. There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.
Barbara Stanwyck
#98. Was my guide a person who would expect what is vulgary called a "tip"? Or was his position so high that even to offer it would be an insult?
William Hurrell Mallock
#99. Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
Juvenal
#100. The extraordinary mystique of hers made you think she lived on rose petals and listened to nothing but Mozart, but it wasn't true. She was quite funny and ribald. She could tell a dirty joke. She played charades with a great sense of fun and vulgarity, and she could be quite bitchy.
Andre Previn
