No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime
Oscar Wilde
Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.
Oscar Wilde
Manners require time, as nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
Coco Chanel
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
Oscar Wilde
As long as war is looked upon as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked on as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Oscar Wilde
A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.
Aristotle
You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
Aristophanes
From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
Alexander Pope
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