Quotes about vulgarity

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of taste.

— Cyril Connolly

It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness.

— Lawrence Durrell

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

— Edward M. Forster

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.

— Alice James

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common

— William Nazlitt

To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

— Alexander Pope

Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.

— Greek Proverb

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

— John Ruskin

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, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

— Dame Edith Sitwell

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

— Mark Twain

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

— Source Unknown

Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of vulgarity that makes the whole world kin.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

— Oscar Wilde

Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.

— Nathaniel P. Willis