It is disgusting to pick your teeth; what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to… — Solomon Schechter Copy Share Image
“If we can’t arrange our own happiness, it’s a conceit beyond vulgarity to arrange the happiness of those who come after us.” — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The nature and extent of profanity and vulgarity in our society is a measure of its deterioration. — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
What is an aristocrat? A woman who is never sullied by vulgarity, although she may be surrounded by it. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
In 1963 ... The Vatican condemned Dr. No as a 'dangerous mixture of violence, vulgarity, sadism and sex.' Ka-ching! — Manohla Dargis Copy Share Image
In a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I love British cursing - the cadence of it, the joy in the sound of the words, and the vulgarity of it. — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Minimalism is not a style, it is an attitude, a way of being. It’s a fundamental reaction against noise, visual noise, disorder,… — Claudio Silvestrin Copy Share Image
Vulgarity finds its antidote; old crudities become softened with time. Distinctions, both those that are useful and those that are burdensome, flourish… — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
Bacon, Locke, Descartes, Hume, and all the others knew they were giving rights to vulgarity. But in so doing in addition to… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
I think the reason for vulgarity is because of the freedom that there is now to do certain things, and a lack… — Polly Allen Mellen Copy Share Image
I'm one of the few reading and thinking people who loves Las Vegas for the vulgarity and omnipresence of the dream. The… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I deplore with you the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed, and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Beware, above all else, of cultivating humanitarian sentiments. Humanitarianism is a vulgarity. I write coldly, rationally, thinking of your own good, you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“They are all very serious people with stern expressions on their faces. They discuss nothing but important matters and like to philosophize… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
To act well in this world, one must sacrifice all personal desires. The people who become missionaries of religious thought have no… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things... — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
It is the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society. Fine society is only a self-protection against… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Vulgarity is like a fine wine: it should only be uncorked on a special occasion, and then only shared with the right… — James Rozoff Copy Share Image
“Where do you come from?" "From the planet of a distant sun, called Earth." "What for?" "I was tired of vulgarity.” — David Lindsay Copy Share Image
