Beauty Quote by Emily Post

The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.

— Tanith Lee

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

Vulgarism in language is the distinguishing characteristic of bad company, and a bad education. A man of fashion avoids nothing with more care than…

— Lord Chesterfield

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

— David Foster Wallace

The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious.

— Michel de Montaigne

When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

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

— Edith Sitwell

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

— Al Gore

Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.

— John Galsworthy

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

I am glad that I am not raising kids today. And I’m rather pessimistic that my grandchildren will enjoy the great society that I’ve…

— Antonin Scalia

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