Top 174 Vulgarity Quotes & Sayings

Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised.

Fashionability is a kind of elevated vulgarity.

... vulgarity has no nation.

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.

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.

Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

To anyone who has followed the practice of using profanity or vulgarity and would like to correct the habit, could I offer this suggestion? First, make the commitment to erase such words from your vocabulary. Next, if you slip and say a swear word or a substitute word, mentally reconstruct the sentence without the vulgarity or substitute word and repeat the new sentence aloud. Eventually you will develop a non-vulgar speech habit.

The Asian-American kids I meet respond to a democracy in the vulgarity of my roles.

Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

I'm one of the few reading and thinking people who loves Las Vegas for the vulgarity and omnipresence of the dream. The collective dream. There's something enormous about it. Let me say one thing: Las Vegas and cinema have similar roots. The country fair. The magician at the country fair. The vulgarity of the country fair.

Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.

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

The nature and extent of profanity and vulgarity in our society is a measure of its deterioration.

Greed is really the religion of vulgarity.

Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity

A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.

I like people who can make you laugh without using vulgarity, or bad words.

Above all, I dislike vulgarity.

Good taste is death; vulgarity is life.

To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things.

Egotism exists everywhere, but it has a different flavor in England, where the tabloid culture goes much deeper. It's just the indulgence of vulgarity, the wallowing in vulgarity. As with everything English, there's a sort of irony to it. They write a great deal about these trivial people who have a certain eminence, always with a bit of, "Isn't it ridiculous that we are writing about this person?"

One is born with good taste. It's very hard to acquire. You can acquire the patina of taste. But what Elsie Mendl had was something else that's particularly American––an appreciation of vulgarity. Vulgarity is a very important ingredient in life. I'm a great believer in vulgarity––if it's got vitality. A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste––it's hearty, it's healthy, it's physical. I think we could use more of it. No taste is what I'm against.

I hate vulgarity. I hate vulgarity even though it attracts me - and it attracts me very much. I love all that is transgressive or vulgar. But in my opinion, it has to reach a limit that is always a little surreal and never becomes in your face.

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.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Vulgarity is no substitute for wit.

Vulgarity, in my mind, is not cool.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Vulgarity shouldn't pass off as humour.

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.

The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.

Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.

I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity

What is an aristocrat? A woman who is never sullied by vulgarity, although she may be surrounded by it.

I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity.

Jewelry and profuse ornaments are unmistakable evidences of vulgarity.

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.

Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.

Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.

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

I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.

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.

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

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

Vulgarity is setting store by the things which are seen.

I love British cursing - the cadence of it, the joy in the sound of the words, and the vulgarity of it.

Intemperance is the only vulgarity.

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

I don't do vulgarity, I prefer to talk about nice things.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit

Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.

I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms.

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

Vulgarity is innocent; urbanity is not.

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.

Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.