"The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. · Vulgarity · 1 fans >>
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"Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of taste."

Connolly, Cyril · Vulgarity · 1 fans >>
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"It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness."

Durrell, Lawrence · Vulgarity · 0 fans >>
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"Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something."

Forster, Edward M. · Vulgarity · 0 fans >>
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"It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon."

James, Alice · Vulgarity · 0 fans >>
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"A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common"

Nazlitt, William · Vulgarity · 0 fans >>
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"To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor."

Pope, Alexander · Vulgarity · 0 fans >>
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"Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar."

Proverb, Greek · Vulgarity · 1 fans >>
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"The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him."

Ruskin, John · Vulgarity · 0 fans >>
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"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."

Schechter, Solomon · Vulgarity · 0 fans >>
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