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105 Vulgarity quotes by 86 unique authors

One is born with good taste. It's very hard to acquire. You can acquire the patina of taste. But what Elsie Mendl had was something… — Diana Vreeland
Today, when death and old age are increasingly concealed behind euphemisms and comforting baby talk, and life is threatened with being smothered in the mass… — Martin Esslin
The best everyday example of relativity, the finest symptom of human intelligence, is humor. (...) Design without humor is not human. The word 'beautiful' does… — Philippe Starck
Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause. — Rudolf Bing
To anyone who has followed the practice of using profanity or vulgarity and would like to correct the habit, could I offer this suggestion? First,… — L. Tom Perry
Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken — William Hazlitt
From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is… — Oscar Wilde
I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity — Julian Clary
Minimalism is not a style, it is an attitude, a way of being. It’s a fundamental reaction against noise, visual noise, disorder, vulgarity. Minimalism is… — Claudio Silvestrin
Despite the vision and farseeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists have felt the peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting, for supporting, and… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut… — Chris Patten
Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit — Doris Day
In a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists. — Maya Angelou
So what is design all about? It [exists to] decrease the amount of vulgarity in the world ... to make the world a better place… — Massimo Vignelli
Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you… — Friedrich Nietzsche
If you think one thing is sacred but you cannot stand the other, if you love the Creator but hate the creation, that is vulgarity. — Jaggi Vasudev
The nature and extent of profanity and vulgarity in our society is a measure of its deterioration. — Dallin H. Oaks
In truth, the legitimate contention is, not of one age or school of literary art against another, but of all successive schools alike, against the… — Walter Pater
I like people who can make you laugh without using vulgarity, or bad words. — Michael Jackson
One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity. — Kevin Smith
Intemperance is the only vulgarity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined. — Mark Twain
Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. — Oscar Wilde
The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of the… — Edith Wharton
It is disgusting to pick your teeth; what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick. — Louis Kronenberger

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