Vulgarity Quotes
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
Oscar Wilde -
Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.
Oscar Wilde
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Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit
Doris Day -
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
E. M. Forster -
She possessed intelligence and didn't put it to use but, rather, wasted it, like a great lady for whom all the riches of the world are merely a sign of vulgarity. That was the fact that must have beguiled Nino: the gratuitousness of Lila's intelligence.
Elena Ferrante -
Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of vulgarity that makes the whole world kin.
Oscar Wilde -
As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.
Alistair Cooke -
From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.
Oscar Wilde
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Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I like people who can make you laugh without using vulgarity, or bad words.
Michael Jackson -
Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.
Nathaniel Parker Willis -
Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity.
Coco Chanel -
Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.
William Hazlitt
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Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.
Vladimir Nabokov -
There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.
Barbara Stanwyck -
Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
Vulgarity shouldn't pass off as humour.
Radha Ravi -
I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.
Coco Chanel -
A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.
William Hazlitt
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Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
Coco Chanel -
Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken
William Hazlitt -
Fashionability is a kind of elevated vulgarity.
George Darley -
I'm just upset that we've been distracted by so much noise and vulgarity when we could be trying to talk about how our country can get stronger.
Natalie Portman