Book Quote by Mary MacLane

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

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

— Oscar Wilde

I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse.

— Egerton Brydges

All books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder. For filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder.…

— Tom Lehrer

All of my books deal in a very rough, rude fashion with subjects about which there are great conflicts of opinion.

— Joseph Heller

“A literature that cannot be vulgarized is no literature at all and will perish.”

— Frank Norris

I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms.

— Charles Bukowski

I use profanity because I like profanity, but I'm not vulgar. Big difference. I love profanity because I really think profanity is cool.

— Godfrey

Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.

— William Shakespeare

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

— Tanith Lee

Above all, I dislike vulgarity.

— Diane Kruger

They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.

— Virginia Woolf