Alas Quote by Czeslaw Milosz

The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.

— William Hazlitt

Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

— Oscar Wilde

Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Al Gore

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

— Edith Sitwell

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 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

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit

— Doris Day

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

— Henry Watson Fowler

It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit…

— Francis Bacon

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

The nature and extent of profanity and vulgarity in our society is a measure of its deterioration.

— Dallin H. Oaks