Vulgarity Quotes

... vulgarity has no nation.

— Arthur Miller

Vulgarity shouldn't pass off as humour.

— Radha Ravi

Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.

— Mary Quant

“Sometimes to return is a vulgarity.”

— John Fowles

“Only the vulgar reveal all.”

— Bryant McGill

Vulgarity, in my mind, is not cool.

— Ted DiBiase Sr

Greed is really the religion of vulgarity.

— Massimo Vignelli

Intemperance is the only vulgarity.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good Cuban cigar closes the doors to the vulgarities of the world.

— Franz Liszt

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.

— Cyril Connolly

“the essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.”

— William Manchester

Jewelry and profuse ornaments are unmistakable evidences of vulgarity.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised.

— Nachman of Breslov

A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.

— Plautus

The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.

— Tanith Lee

Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without…

— Rudolf Bing

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“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

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

The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way…

— Edward Abbey

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is…

— Alice James

Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The nature and extent of profanity and vulgarity in our society is a measure of its deterioration.

— Dallin H. Oaks

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

“How sad is it when a luxurious imagination is obliged in self defense to deaden its delicacy in vulgarity, and riot in…

— John Keats

Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of…

— Oscar Wilde

A man of fashion never has recourse to proverbs, and vulgar aphorisms; uses neither favourite words nor hard words, but takes great…

— Anonymous

For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be…

— Anonymous

The Miss America contest isthe most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a…

— Gerald Early

I think American is very democratic in allowing different hues of language and parts of speech to commingle. William Logan once wrote…

— Lucie Brock-Broido

The art of cartooning is vulgarity. The only reason for cartooning to exist is to be on the edge. If you only…

— Ralph Bakshi

“The patriarchal authoritarian sexual order that resulted from the revolutionary processes of latter-day matriarchy (economic independence of the chief's family from the…

— Wilhelm Reich

“First, however, I must deal with the matter of Jesus, the so-called savior, who not long ago taught new doctrines and was…

— Celsus

So [Donald ] Trump gave a speech on national security and military affairs to a military-themed audience in Philadelphia, and there was…

— Rush Limbaugh

In San Francisco, vulgarity, "bad taste," ostentation are regarded as a kind of alien blight, an invasion or encroachment from outside. In…

— Pauline Kael

“Fatally, the term 'barbarian' is the password that opens up the archives of the twentieth century. It refers to the despiser of…

— Peter Sloterdijk

The most beautiful conception of immortality of which I know, and certainly one that by contrast shows the utter vulgarity of Christian…

— Revilo P. Oliver

“You could have fucked me ’til your uncut, overexposed on the blogs, ‘too ginormous for my snatch’ pecker fell off. And I’d…

— Avery Aster

While [Domald] Trump chose a running mate, [Mike] Pence, who wrote [a letter to an Indianapolis newspaper] about how women shouldn't work…

— Natalie Portman