Best Vulgarity Sayings

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It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness. — Lawrence Durrell
Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun. — Nathaniel Parker Willis
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. — Alexander Pope
... vulgarity has no nation. — Arthur Miller
Vulgarity finds its antidote; old crudities become softened with time. Distinctions, both those that are useful and those that are burdensome, flourish and die, reflourish… — Robert Burchfield
Those who are addicted to the phrase "to use a vulgarism" expect to achieve the feat of being at once vulgar and superior to vulgarity. — Henry Watson Fowler
The art of cartooning is vulgarity. The only reason for cartooning to exist is to be on the edge. If you only take apart what… — Ralph Bakshi
The reproach that superficial people formulate against Manet, that whereas once he painted ugliness, now he paints vulgarity, falls harmlessly to the ground, when we… — Stephane Mallarme
Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close. — Barbara Stanwyck
By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else. — Solomon Schechter
To act well in this world, one must sacrifice all personal desires. The people who become missionaries of religious thought have no other Fatherland than… — Ernest Renan
Journalists are more powerful now than they've ever been, and we all know what power does. Anyone who disses the media is really asking for… — Charles McGrath
Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus. — George Bernard Shaw
Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity. — William Hazlitt
Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life. — Cyril Connolly
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. — E. M. Forster
Above all, I dislike vulgarity. — Diane Kruger
In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
America does not want vulgarity and sexual exploitation to be our values and we do not want the world to think those are our standards.… — Charles W. Pickering
I don't do any vulgar movements. — Elvis Presley
There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment… — John Ruskin
Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity. — Arthur Schopenhauer
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to… — Oscar Wilde
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. — Oscar Wilde

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