Jewelry and profuse ornaments are unmistakable evidences of vulgarity. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“Nobody ever went broke overestimating the vulgarity of the American people,” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Passionless is vulgar ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka")” — William S. Wilson Copy Share Image
The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar. — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
“Now I ask you: could any muck-raker in a rage make up a list of titles more completely expressive of vulgarity, commercialism… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without… — Rudolf Bing Copy Share Image
The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I'm just upset that we've been distracted by so much noise and vulgarity when we could be trying to talk about how… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Journalists are more powerful now than they've ever been, and we all know what power does. Anyone who disses the media is… — Charles McGrath Copy Share Image
“How sad is it when a luxurious imagination is obliged in self defense to deaden its delicacy in vulgarity, and riot in… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Vulgarism in language is the distinguishing characteristic of bad company, and a bad education. A man of fashion avoids nothing with more… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste-it's hearty, it's healthy,… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I abide by a rule concerning reviews: I will never ask, neither in writing nor in person, that a word be put… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
To anyone who has followed the practice of using profanity or vulgarity and would like to correct the habit, could I offer… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
The world in which we live would benefit greatly if men and women everywhere would exercise the pure love of Christ, which… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
The world that seemed so various and new, well, it does contract. One's burning desire to investigate human behavior, and to make,… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
Today, when death and old age are increasingly concealed behind euphemisms and comforting baby talk, and life is threatened with being smothered… — Martin Esslin Copy Share Image
I would not have said anything about Mr. Trump, never - I would never have said anything if he didn't call himself… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Just let matters slide. How much better to accept each sweet drop of the honey that was Time, than to stoop to… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Despite the vision and farseeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists have felt the peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting,… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Sir, I have seen your film and it is vulgar! Madame, my film rises below vulgarity. — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
There is a fine line between sensuousness and vulgarity. I will not cross that line. — Jasmin Bhasin Copy Share Image