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Vulgarity Is 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 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”

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

Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.59, University of Virginia Press

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.

William Hazlitt (1854). “The Miscellaneous Works”

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

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.156, Oxford University Press on Demand