Bourgeois Quote by Anton Chekhov

Bourgeois existence is the regime of private affairs . . . and the family is the rotten, dismal edifice in whose closets and crannies…

— Walter Benjamin

By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody…

— Solomon Schechter

At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility with a…

— David Foster Wallace

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

— Edith Sitwell

Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

— Oscar Wilde

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.

— William Hazlitt

The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious.

— Michel de Montaigne

“For the Age has itself become vulgar, and most people have no idea to what extent they are themselves tainted. The bad manners of…

— Oswald Spengler

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in…

— John Ruskin

I think the reason for vulgarity is because of the freedom that there is now to do certain things, and a lack of sophistication…

— Polly Allen Mellen

Vulgarity finds its antidote; old crudities become softened with time. Distinctions, both those that are useful and those that are burdensome, flourish and die,…

— Robert Burchfield

In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable -…

— Al Gore