Quote by David Foster Wallace

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

The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious.

— Michel de Montaigne

the essence of vulgarity seemed to lie in the pretence at being or the attempt to be, something that one really was not, with…

— Ann Bridge

Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Edith Sitwell

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

The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation.

— Emily Post

“Vulgarity is like a fine wine: it should only be uncorked on a special occasion, and then only shared with the right group of…

— James Rozoff

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

— William Hazlitt

Don't get me wrong - intellectual snobbery is vulgar and gauche.

— Robert Webb

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