Axioms Quote by David Foster Wallace

“At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby.”

— David Foster Wallace

Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

— Oscar Wilde

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.

— William Hazlitt

The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious.

— Michel de Montaigne

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

— Edith Sitwell

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in…

— John Ruskin

By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody…

— Solomon Schechter

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

— Al Gore

I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people…

— Imogen Poots

There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue.

— Anton Chekhov