Vulgarism Quotes

#1. 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

#2. We are compelled to choose," he sometimes complained, "between the savagery of Communism and the vulgarism of America.

Pearl S. Buck

#3. Vulgarism in language is the distinguishing characteristic of bad company, and a bad education. A man of fashion avoids nothing with more care than that. Proverbial expressions, and trite sayings, are the flowers of the rhetoric of vulgar man.

Lord Chesterfield

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

Thomas Carlyle

#5. Try managing a junkie - especially if you've never been one yourself.

Malcolm McLaren

#6. No matter how humble a man's beginnings, he achieves the stature of the office to which he is elected.

Nikita Khrushchev

#7. To permit writers to use forms which violate convention just might permit writers to develop forms which would teach people to think differently: not to think about different things, but to think in different ways.

Andrea Dworkin

#8. We are conditioned by the national parks to link beauty and environmental value, a prejudice that makes as much sense as thinking attractive people form better friendships than plain people.

Charles Wohlforth

#9. The Internet," [Judy] Singer said, "is a prosthetic device for people who can't socialize without it." For anyone challenged by language and social rules, a communication system that does not operate in real time is a godsend.

Andrew Solomon