Top 99 Vulgarity Is Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#4. The nature and extent of profanity and vulgarity in our society is a measure of its deterioration.
Dallin H. Oaks
#5. 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
#6. 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
#8. To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things ...
Muriel Barbery
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief.
Cynthia Ozick
#16. 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
#19. 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
#20. Vulgarity is an old Narcissus who adores himself and applauds the common vulgarity.
Victor Hugo
#21. 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
#22. Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity.
Massimo Vignelli
#23. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. Plot is a primitive vulgarity in literature, said Balph Eubank contemptuously.
Ayn Rand
#31. Fashionability is a kind of elevated vulgarity.
George Darley
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. We need the courage to say obesity is not funny and vulgarity is not amusing.
Maya Angelou
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
Alexander Pope
#39. No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime".
Oscar Wilde
#40. Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
Coco Chanel
#42. Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.
Mary Quant
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. A travesty that for coarseness, vulgarity, and buffoonery is almost unexampled even in the literature of that day.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. What is an aristocrat? A woman who is never sullied by vulgarity, although she may be surrounded by it.
Muriel Barbery
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness
Caitlin Thomas
#52. 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
#53. Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.
Oscar Wilde
#54. 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
#55. '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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.
Mark Twain
#59. 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
#60. One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity.
Kevin Smith
#61. Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
Edith Sitwell
#62. There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.
Barbara Stanwyck
#63. 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
#64. All crime is vulgar, just as all vulgarity is a crime
Oscar Wilde
#65. Without an element of vulgarity, no man can be a work of art ... I have to try and think what an artist is, apart from a hooligan who cannot live within his income of praise.
Quentin Crisp
#66. 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
#68. The most extravagant sinners of Jesus's day receive His most compassionate welcome. Grace is a divine vulgarity that stands caution on its head. It refuses to play it safe and lay it up. Grace is recklessly generous, uncomfortably promiscuous.
Preston Sprinkle
#69. Sir, I have seen your film and it is vulgar! Madame, my film rises below vulgarity.
Mel Brooks
#70. 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.
John Ruskin
#72. Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments of unbelievable clarity and invention, pleasure, fun, vulgarity, excess, novelty and utter enervation.
Greil Marcus
#73. Passionless is vulgar ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka")
William S. Wilson
#74. Oscar Wilde said that "All crime is vulgar, just as all vulgarity is crime," and then got sent off to Reading Gaol to reconsider and write ballads.
Mark Forsyth
#75. Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
Evelyn Waugh
#76. There is in the world only the choice between loneliness and vulgarity. All young people should be taught now to put up with loneliness ... because the less man is compelled to come into contact with others, the better off he is.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#78. Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken
William Hazlitt
#80. ... perhaps vulgarity is the price one pays for possessing no civilisation of one's own.
Robert Payne
#81. Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.
Bayard Taylor
#82. In truth, the legitimate contention is, not of one age or school of literary art against another, but of all successive schools alike, against the stupidity which is dead to the substance, and the vulgarity which is dead to form.
Walter Pater
#83. Rummaging in the storehouses of religious or literary history for myth-matter for ideational uses is of the nature of spiritual vulgarity.
Laura Riding
#84. 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.
Chris Patten
#85. A well-cut dress is my personal style. I definitely like it classic; less is more. The thing I despise most is vulgarity.
Diane Kruger
#86. If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big color photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer. Such vulgarity is healthy and safe.
Werner Herzog
#87. Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.
Pauline Kael
#88. I believe, there is scarcely a young lady in the united kingdoms, who would not rather put up with the misfortune of being sought by a clever, agreeable man, than have him driven away by the vulgarity of her nearest relations.
Jane Austen
#90. 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.
Alice James
#91. When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains, ask yourself the question: Not what style, but in what civilization is this building? And the absurdity, vulgarity, anachronism and solecism of the modern structure will be revealed to you in a most startling fashion.
Louis Sullivan
#93. Vulgarity is like a fine wine: it should only be uncorked on a special occasion, and then only shared with the right group of people.
James Rozoff
#94. All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark.
Laurence Sterne
#96. A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success, and is based on blindness to the nobility of the effort, is vulgar.
Leo Strauss
#97. Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing. They are not ashamed.
Mark Twain
#98. Does truth lie in the everyday events, the daily incidents, in the pettiness and vulgarity most people's lives are compounded of, or does the truth have its abode in the dream it is given us to dream to flee our sad human condition?
Jorge Amado
#99. The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.
Tanith Lee
