Vulgarity Is Quotes - Page 2

Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.

Vulgarity is no substitute for wit.

I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics.

A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness

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.

The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.

Vulgarity is setting store by the things which are seen.

The undressed is vulgar; the nude is pure, and the well-dressed tainted.

Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And falsehoods the truths of other people. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.

Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.

Vulgarity is innocent; urbanity is not.

Norbit operates on the principle that vulgarity is automatically funny. Crassness doesn't need a joke attached because it is (in and of itself) the height of hilarity.

Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.