Appearance Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

— Oscar Wilde

What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where…

— William Hazlitt

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.

— William Hazlitt

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

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

— Al Gore

By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody…

— Solomon Schechter

The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious.

— Michel de Montaigne

Intemperance is the only vulgarity.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit

— Doris Day

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

— David Foster Wallace

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

— Edith Sitwell

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