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Tag Name "Vulgarity" (90)

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Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.
Plautus
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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.
Robert Burchfield
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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
Edith Sitwell
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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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Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.
Cyril Connolly
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Vulgarity is innocent urbanity is not.
Mason Cooley
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The reproach that superficial people formulate against Manet, that whereas once he painted ugliness, now he paints vulgarity, falls harmlessly to the ground, when we recognize the fact that he paints the truth.
Stephane Mallarme
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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
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Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Those who are well assured of their own standing are least apt to trespass on that of others, whereas nothing is so offensive as the aspirings of vulgarity which thinks to elevate itself by humiliating its neighbor.
Washington Irving
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I'm one of the few reading and thinking people who loves Las Vegas for the vulgarity and omnipresence of the dream. The collective dream. There's something enormous about it. Let me say one thing: Las Vegas and cinema have similar roots. The country fair. The magician at the country fair. The vulgarity of the country fair.
Werner Herzog
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Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken
William Hazlitt
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Political action involves mental vulgarity, not merely because it entails the occurrence and support of those who are mentally vulgar, but because of the simplification of human life implied in even the best of it purposes.
Michael Joseph Oakeshott
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Flattery leads to vulgarity the flatterer is despised.
Nachman of Breslov
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Whenever a man is known to seek promotion by intrigue, by temporizing, or by resorting to the haunts of vulgarity and vice for support, it may be inferred, with moral certainty, that he is not a man of real respectability, nor is he entitled to public confidence.
Noah Webster
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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.
Oscar Wilde
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I think the reason for vulgarity is because of the freedom that there is now to do certain things, and a lack of sophistication on the part of some people who, in their work, like to give the impression of, Has there been intercourse or not? Are they about to? But they take it into a realm that has a vulgar touch to it.
Polly Allen Mellen
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Intemperance is the only vulgarity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I hate vulgarity. I hate vulgarity even though it attracts me - and it attracts me very much. I love all that is transgressive or vulgar. But in my opinion, it has to reach a limit that is always a little surreal and never becomes in your face.
Riccardo Tisci
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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
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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
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Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity.
Massimo Vignelli
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Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something vulgarity, concealing something.
E. M. Forster
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