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Vulgarity Is Quotes

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I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.
Mel Brooks

Authors on Vulgarity Is Quotes: Oscar Wilde J. Robert Oppenheimer John Marshall Harlan II Thomas Carlyle Alexander Pope James Berardinelli Barbara Stanwyck Rudolf Bing John Ruskin Solomon Schechter Alice James George Bernard Shaw Edith Sitwell Julian Fellowes Robert Green Ingersoll William Hazlitt Gilbert K. Chesterton Chris Patten E. M. Forster Mary Quant Roberto Cavalli Tanith Lee Friedrich Nietzsche Coco Chanel Nathaniel Parker Willis Caitlin Thomas Mason Cooley Roger Ebert Vladimir Nabokov Mark Twain Cyril Connolly Lawrence O'Donnell Pauline Kael
2.
It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.
Alice James

3.
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
Edith Sitwell

4.
There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is.
Roberto Cavalli

5.
There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.
Barbara Stanwyck

6.
Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.
Cyril Connolly

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In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

8.
The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

9.
No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.
Oscar Wilde

10.
Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.
Vladimir Nabokov

11.
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

12.
Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.
Mary Quant

13.
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
E. M. Forster

14.
One man's vulgarity is another man's lyric.
John Marshall Harlan II

15.
The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

16.
Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause.
Rudolf Bing

17.
Donald Trump did his usual softball interview on "Fox News" where the interviewer agreed with Trump that using that Yiddish vulgarity is going to be OK for him.
Lawrence O'Donnell

18.
Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.
Oscar Wilde

19.
The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... The movie is vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't laugh. When we laugh, it's merely human nature.
Roger Ebert

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There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.
John Ruskin

21.
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
Alexander Pope

22.
By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
Solomon Schechter

23.
There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.
Mark Twain

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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
Oscar Wilde

25.
Vulgarity is no substitute for wit.
Julian Fellowes

26.
A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.
William Hazlitt

27.
Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.
Nathaniel Parker Willis

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I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics.
Chris Patten

29.
A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness
Caitlin Thomas

30.
The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.
Thomas Carlyle

31.
The undressed is vulgar; the nude is pure, and the well-dressed tainted.
Robert Green Ingersoll

32.
The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.
Tanith Lee

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Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And falsehoods the truths of other people. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
Oscar Wilde

34.
Vulgarity is setting store by the things which are seen.
Sydney, Lady Morgan

35.
Norbit operates on the principle that vulgarity is automatically funny. Crassness doesn't need a joke attached because it is (in and of itself) the height of hilarity.
James Berardinelli

36.
Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.
Pauline Kael

37.
Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.
George Bernard Shaw

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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

39.
Vulgarity is innocent; urbanity is not.
Mason Cooley