Vulgarity Quotes

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.

One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity.

Greed is really the religion of vulgarity.

Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.

Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.

... vulgarity has no nation.

What is an aristocrat? A woman who is never sullied by vulgarity, although she may be surrounded by it.

Above all, I dislike vulgarity.

Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised.

Fashionability is a kind of elevated vulgarity.

I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity

The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!

Intemperance is the only vulgarity.

To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things.

Vulgarity finds its antidote; old crudities become softened with time. Distinctions, both those that are useful and those that are burdensome, flourish and die, reflourish and die again.