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Vulgarity Quotes

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

Johann Georg von Zimmermann

No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime

Oscar Wilde

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

Doris Day

Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.

Oscar Wilde

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

William Hazlitt

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

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

“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

Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

Oscar Wilde

Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people

Oscar Wilde

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

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

Edward M. Forster

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

Barbara Stanwyck

It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Sitwell, Dame Edith

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

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

Coco Chanel

Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.

William Hazlitt

Television is a corporate vulgarity.

John Leonard

It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness.

Lawrence Durrell

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

Oscar Wilde

Rock 'n Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments of unbelievable clarity and invention, pleasure, fun, vulgarity, excess, novelty and utter enervation.

Greil Marcus

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken.

William Hazlitt

Television is a corporate vulgarity

John Leonard

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.

Cyril Connolly