Vulgarity Quotes · Page 4

I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms.

— Charles Bukowski

Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.

— Juvenal

Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity

— Coco Chanel

One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity.

— Kevin Smith

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

— Mark Twain

The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.

— Leon Trotsky

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

— William Hazlitt

Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.

— Vladimir Nabokov

He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.

— Lawrence Durrell

Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.

— William Hazlitt

“She represents the beauty of the common people in all its vulgarity and provocativeness.”

— Alaa Al Aswany

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.

— Walter Pater

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

The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease, and the manner of a gentleman has ease without freedom.

— Lord Chesterfield

As to the pure all things are pure, so the common mind sees far more vulgarity in others than the mind developed…

— George MacDonald

Keats, it must be remembered, was a sensualist. His poems ... reveal him as a man not altogether free from the vulgarities…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains, ask yourself the question: Not what style, but in…

— Louis Sullivan

I hate vulgarity. I hate vulgarity even though it attracts me - and it attracts me very much. I love all that…

— Riccardo Tisci

The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious…

— Edith Wharton

In truth, the legitimate contention is, not of one age or school of literary art against another, but of all successive schools…

— Walter Pater

I cannot understand why the poets of our day wax indignant at the vulgarity of their age and complain of having come…

— Gabriele d'Annunzio

So what is design all about? It [exists to] decrease the amount of vulgarity in the world ... to make the world…

— Massimo Vignelli

The first discipline modernity's originators imposed upon themselves was that of self-restraint, learning to live with vulgarity. Their high expectations for effectiveness…

— Allan Bloom

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

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

Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief.

— Cynthia Ozick

Sir, I have seen your film and it is vulgar! Madame, my film rises below vulgarity.

— Mel Brooks

Vulgarity is setting store by the things which are seen.

— Sydney, Lady Morgan

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

— Mel Brooks

The difference between vulgarity and erotica is lighting !!

— Shubhi Sharma

No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.

— Oscar Wilde

Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.

— Pauline Kael

We all need a splash of bad taste. No taste is what I am against.

— Diana Vreeland

“All crime is vulgar, just as all vulgarity is a crime”

— Oscar Wilde

There is a fine line between sensuousness and vulgarity. I will not cross that line.

— Jasmin Bhasin

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later

— Alistair Cooke

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

— Edith Sitwell

Those who are addicted to the phrase "to use a vulgarism" expect to achieve the feat of being at once vulgar and…

— Henry Watson Fowler

Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.

— Evelyn Waugh