Vulgarity Quotes

105 quotes by 86 authors

There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand… — Roberto Cavalli
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. — Coco Chanel
In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands… — Mary McCarthy
Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or watered down, in… — Louis Kronenberger
The world in which we live would benefit greatly if men and women everywhere would exercise the pure love of Christ, which is kind, meek,… — Howard W. Hunter
Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy, because it was… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments… — Greil Marcus
By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of the mind itself.… — James Joyce
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity. — Evelyn Waugh
Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide… — Mark Twain
Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation. — George Bernard Shaw
The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool… — Raymond Chandler
Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life. — Mary Quant
Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity. — Massimo Vignelli
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness. — Edith Sitwell
The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life. — Edward Abbey
Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery. — Pauline Kael
A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness — Caitlin Thomas
Political action involves mental vulgarity, not merely because it entails the occurrence and support of those who are mentally vulgar, but because of the simplification… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. — Walter Pater

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