Bad company Quote by Lord Chesterfield

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

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

— Oscar Wilde

Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

— Oscar Wilde

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

Profanity is filthiness. A person is known as much by his language as he is by the company he keeps...Filthiness in any form is…

— Joseph Fielding Smith

It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit…

— Francis Bacon

All fear of 'offensive' speech is bourgeois and reactionary. Historically, profane or bawdy language was common in both the upper and the lower classes,…

— Camille Paglia

A man of fashion never has recourse to proverbs, and vulgar aphorisms; uses neither favourite words nor hard words, but takes great care to…

— Anonymous

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 foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing...is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense…

— George Washington

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character…

— George Washington

The nature and extent of profanity and vulgarity in our society is a measure of its deterioration.

— Dallin H. Oaks