History Quote by Laura Riding

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

This point seems counter-intuitive, given the amount of conspicuous vulgarity, vice, and immorality in America. Indeed some Islamic fundamentalists argue that their regimes are…

— Dinesh D'Souza

Just let matters slide. How much better to accept each sweet drop of the honey that was Time, than to stoop to the vulgarity…

— Yukio Mishima

A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success, and is…

— Leo Strauss

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

— George Bernard Shaw

Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief.

— Cynthia Ozick

“She represents the beauty of the common people in all its vulgarity and provocativeness.”

— Alaa Al Aswany

There is in the world only the choice between loneliness and vulgarity. All young people should be taught now to put up with loneliness…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Oscar Wilde

Put your point across respectfully and convincingly. Those who become vulgar, angry or violent usually do not have a valid point to make.

— Mufti Ismail Menk

It is the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society. Fine society is only a self-protection against the vulgarities…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness

— Caitlin Thomas