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Quotes about Vulgarity


We have exchanged the Washingtonian dignity for the Jeffersonian simplicity, which was in truth only another name for the Jacksonian vulgarity.

Henry Codman Potter

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

Edward M. Forster

Television is a corporate vulgarity.

John Leonard

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

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

Doris Day

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.

Alistair Cooke

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

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of taste.

Cyril Connolly

Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.

Nathaniel P. Willis

Vulgarity is the rich man's modest contribution to democracy.

Nathaniel P. Anonymous

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

Oscar Wilde

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