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Vulgarity Quotes

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

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

"Mel Brooks Honored With AFI Life Achievement Award" by Gregg Kilday, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 7, 2013.

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.

"The Condemned Playground". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1945.

No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.114, Courier Corporation

Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.

Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.412, Vintage

Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.

"Why Mary Quant's Swinging Sixties London Look Stills Holds Sway" by Lynn Yaeger, www.vogue.com. February 11, 2015.

... vulgarity has no nation.

Arthur Miller (2015). “The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.530, Penguin

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

"The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, August 31, 2006.

Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.212, Oxford Paperbacks

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 (1909). “Abraham Lincoln: Memorial Address Delivered at the Lincoln Centennial Celebration of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America”