Concealing Quote by E. M. Forster

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

— George Eliot

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

He collected audiences around him, and flourished and exhibited and harangued.

— Aesop

He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

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

A vulgar man is captious and jealous; eager and impetuous about trifles. He suspects himself to be slighted, and thinks everything that is said…

— Lord Chesterfield

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 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

One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity.

— Kevin Smith