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Vulgarity Quotes
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Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity. (Quote by - Vladimir Nabokov)
Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life. (Quote by - Cyril Connolly)
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. (Quote by - Edward M. Forster)
America does not want vulgarity and sexual exploitation to be our values and we do not want the world to think those are our standards. We want to be a better nation and a better people, with better standards. (Quote by - Charles W. Pickering)
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. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity. (Quote by - Julian Clary)
Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar. (Quote by - Greek Proverb)
People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity. Clean vulgarity can be very shocking and that, in my view, gives greater involvement. (Quote by - Kenneth Williams)
As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later. (Quote by - 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. (Quote by - Solomon Schechter)
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit. (Quote by - Doris Day)
In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. (Quote by - J. Robert Oppenheimer)
Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun. (Quote by - Nathaniel P. Willis)