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“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.”

Humans Enough Moral Comfort Species Planning Breathing Accustomed Vulgarity Vulgarity Is

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“The fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call slang, which not a few of our writers seem to have affected.”

Seems Taste Affected Occasional Offence Vulgarity Slang Fastidious

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.”

Taste Jewelry Tangible Mock Vulgarity

Author:Bayard Taylor

“A gift--its kind, its value and appearance; the silence or the pomp that attends it; the style in which it reaches you--may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver.”

Kind May Values Silence Style Dignity Appearance Giver Vulgarity

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action.”

Action Common Objects Greatness Incapable Vulgar Gross Stale Vulgarity Allure

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“Fashionability is a kind of elevated vulgarity.”

Kind Fashion Vulgarity

Book:the works of beaumont and fletcher.

Source: the works of beaumont and fletcher.

“the essence of vulgarity seemed to lie in the pretence at being or the attempt to be, something that one really was not, with the resulting lack of ease and dignity and taste.”

Lying Taste Dignity Essence Ease Pretense Vulgarity Pretence

Book:Singing Waters

Source: Singing Waters

“Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential; it went beyond legend and returned through mist to the lovely folly of history. To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity.”

Humanity Three Hundred Weight Historical Lovely Folly Pounds Legends Affirmation Reckless Mist Vulgarity

Book:End Zone

Source: End Zone

“Greed is really the religion of vulgarity.”

Greed Vulgarity

Author:Massimo Vignelli

“The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!”

Truth Knowledge Vulgarity

Book:Philosophy and truth: selections from Nietzsche's notebooks of the early 1870's

Source: Philosophy and truth: selections from Nietzsche's notebooks of the early 1870's

“The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.”

Generations Holes Immense Vulgar Ants Vulgarity Profundity

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“It is human agitation, with all the vulgarity of needs small and great, with its flagrant disgust for the police who repress it, it is the agitation of all menthat alone determines revolutionary mental forms, in opposition to bourgeois mental forms.”

Needs Humans Form Police Determine Revolutionary Opposition Disgusting Bourgeois Vulgarity Agitation

Author:Georges Bataille

“In San Francisco, vulgarity, "bad taste," ostentation are regarded as a kind of alien blight, an invasion or encroachment from outside. In Los Angeles, there is so much money and power connected with ostentation that is no longer ludicrous: it commands a kind of respect. For if the mighty behave like this, then quiet good taste means that you can't afford the conspicuous expenditures, and you become a little ashamed of your modesty and propriety.”

Source: i lost it at the movies

“The Miss America contest isthe most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition.”

Way Want America Culture Class Doors Middle Missing Anxiety Ambition Lows Theater Entertainment Middle Class Ritual Capture Contests Polished Vulgarity Respectability Miss America High Class

Author:Gerald Early

“Not for Moorcock the painful, infrequent excretion of dry little novels like so many rabbit pellets; his is the grand, messy fluxitself, in all its heroic vulgarity, its unquenchable optimism, its enthusiasm for the inexhaustible variousness of things.”

Littles Creativity Novel Optimism Painful Enthusiasm Dry Excess Heroic Rabbits Messy Vulgarity

Book:Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings

Source: Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings

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

Men Animal Laughter Noisy Vulgarity

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Vulgarity is innocent; urbanity is not.”

Innocent Sophistication Vulgarity Vulgarity Is

Author:Mason Cooley

“Sleaze is a point by point refutation of elegance.”

Elegance Vulgarity Refutation Sleazes

Author:Mason Cooley

“We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football.”

Men Made Care Fun Sports Perfect Football Excellence Soccer Dedicated Cricket Astonishing Avarice Inhuman Vulgarity Playing Football

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease, and the manner of a gentleman has ease without freedom.”

Men He Man Manners Ease Gentleman Vulgar Vulgarity

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“Vulgarism in language is the distinguishing characteristic of bad company, and a bad education. A man of fashion avoids nothing with more care than that. Proverbial expressions, and trite sayings, are the flowers of the rhetoric of vulgar man.”

Men Care Language Company Fashion Expression Flower Characteristics Rhetoric Vulgar Vulgarity Proverbial Bad Company Bad Education

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“A man of fashion never has recourse to proverbs, and vulgar aphorisms; uses neither favourite words nor hard words, but takes great care to speak very correctly and grammatically, and to pronounce properly; that is, according to the usage of the best companies.”

Men Hard Use Care Speak Language Company Fashion Aphorism Favourite Vulgar Vulgarity Usage Recourse Hard Words Best Company

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“Jewelry and profuse ornaments are unmistakable evidences of vulgarity.”

Evidence Jewelry Ornaments Vulgarity

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised.”

Flattery Despised Vulgarity Flatterer

Author:Nachman of Breslov

“When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains, ask yourself the question: Not what style, but in what civilization is this building? And the absurdity, vulgarity, anachronism and solecism of the modern structure will be revealed to you in a most startling fashion.”

Looks Asks Modern Fashion Style Building Civilization Remains Structure Historical Contemporary Copies Absurdity Vulgarity Anachronism

Author:Louis Sullivan

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

Belief Produce Products Civilization Vulgarity Godlessness

Author:Cynthia Ozick

“rummaging in the storehouses of religious or literary history for myth-matter for ideational uses is of the nature of spiritual vulgarity.”

Matter Use Spiritual Religious Myth Vulgarity

Author:Laura Riding

“Vulgarity is setting store by the things which are seen.”

Stores Setting Settings Vulgarity Vulgarity Is

Author:Sydney, Lady Morgan

“I cannot understand why the poets of our day wax indignant at the vulgarity of their age and complain of having come into the world too early or too late. I believe that every man of intellect can create his own beautiful fable of life.”

Men World Believe Age Beautiful I Believe Poet Late Intellect Complaining Every Man Too Late Fables Vulgarity Indignant

Author:Gabriele d'Annunzio

“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.”

People Thinking Country Dream Reading One Thing Fairs Roots Let Me Enormous Cinema Collectives Magician Vegas Las Vegas Vulgarity

Author:Werner Herzog

“Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.”

Exhilarating Vulgarity Philistines Vulgarity Is

Book:The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated

Source: The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated

“European democracy was originally imbued with a sense of Christian responsibility and self-discipline, but these spiritual principles have been gradually losing their force. Spiritual independence is being pressured on all sides by the dictatorship of self-satisfied vulgarity, of the latest fads, and of group interests.”

“I don't like the vulgarity of Oscars weekend, but it's also sweet. It's prom weekend for anyone who didn't experience the real prom: the nerds, gay, arty outsiders. Hollywood is high school with money.”

Real School Sweet Gay High School Hollywood Weekend Outsiders Oscars Nerd Vulgarity Prom

Author:Kevin Sessums

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

States United United States Stupidity Pillars Vulgarity

Author:Leon Trotsky

“A well-cut dress is my personal style. I definitely like it classic; less is more. The thing I despise most is vulgarity.”

Wells Cutting Style Dresses Classic Despise Vulgarity Personal Style Less Is More

Author:Diane Kruger

“Whenever a man is known to seek promotion by intrigue, by temporizing, or by resorting to the haunts of vulgarity and vice for support, it may be inferred, with moral certainty, that he is not a man of real respectability, nor is he entitled to public confidence.”

Men May Real Known Moral Support Vices Certainty Entitled Intrigue Promotion Vulgarity Respectability

Book:Letters to a Young Gentleman Commencing His Education: To which is Subjoined a Brief History of the United States

Source: Letters to a Young Gentleman Commencing His Education: To which is Subjoined a Brief History of the United States

“There is in the world only the choice between loneliness and vulgarity. All young people should be taught now to put up with loneliness ... because the less man is compelled to come into contact with others, the better off he is.”

People Men World Should Young Choices Loneliness Taught Contact Compelled Better Off Vulgarity

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“I lost the love of all the homosexuals in the world by saying that Princess Diana was trash and got what she deserved. She could have been Queen of England - and she was swanning about Paris with Arabs. What disgraceful behavior. Going about saying she wanted to be the queen of hearts. The vulgarity of it is so overpowering.”

World Heart Has Beens Wanted Lost Behavior England Queens Paris Princess Homosexual Trash Could Have Been Vulgarity Diana Disgraceful Overpowering Queen Of England Queen Of Hearts

Author:Quentin Crisp

“That is why I think, in defiance of Plato, that there is at once error and vulgarity in saying that poetry is a lie, except in the sense that Cocteau wrote one day: I am a lie who always tells the truth. The only poetry which lies purely and simply is academic, pseudo-classical, conceptually repetitive poetry, and it is not poetry.”

Thinking Lying One Day Errors Telling The Truth Poetry Is Academic Plato Defiance Vulgarity Pseudo Repetitive

Author:Jacques Maritain

“A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.”

Common Vulgar Vulgarity Vulgarity Is

Book:The Miscellaneous Works

Source: The Miscellaneous Works

“I deplore with you the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed, and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them. ... This has in a great degree been produced by the violence and malignity of party spirit.”

Writing States Spirit Party Violence Degrees Newspapers Vulgarity

Book:Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States

Source: Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States

“Donald Trump did his usual softball interview on "Fox News" where the interviewer agreed with Trump that using that Yiddish vulgarity is going to be OK for him.”

Trump News Interviews Usual Foxes Softball Vulgarity Fox News Interviewers Yiddish Vulgarity Is

Author:Lawrence O'Donnell

“In my own work, humor is necessary, for the reasons stated above, but also because forbidding your characters silliness, absurdity, irony, and vulgarity forbids them aspects of the human experience every bit as universal as sorrow.”

Humans Reason Character Bits My Own Sorrow Aspect Universal Irony Absurdity Human Experience Vulgarity Silliness Work Humor

Author:Anthony Marra

“I would not have said anything about Mr. Trump, never - I would never have said anything if he didn't call himself a Christian. It'd be none of my business whatsoever to make any comments about his language, his vulgarities, his slander of people, but I was deeply troubled ... that here's a man who holds up a Bible one day, and calls a lady "bimbo" the next.”

People Ifs Men Said Christian Next Language Trump One Day Comment Slander Vulgarity

Author:Max Lucado

“So [Donald ] Trump gave a speech on national security and military affairs to a military-themed audience in Philadelphia, and there was no vulgarity in it. There was no bombast. There wasn't any of the usual Trump braggadocio. It was a teleprompter speech, but it was serious, studious, and it represented a solid understanding of issues and of the status quo.”

Understanding Audience Issues Security Military Serious Trump Speech Affair Usual National Security Status Quo Philadelphia Vulgarity Studious

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“While [Domald] Trump chose a running mate, [Mike] Pence, who wrote [a letter to an Indianapolis newspaper] about how women shouldn't work because it's bad for the family. So we're really facing such a stark contrast between the candidates. Not to mention the vulgarity that Trump has been spouting about women for his entire life and continues to throughout his campaign. It's just a different world that we'd be living in [if he won].”

Ifs World Has Beens Different Running Trump Letters Campaigns Newspapers Candidates Mates Contrast Mike Starks Different Worlds Vulgarity Indianapolis

Author:Natalie Portman

“I'm just upset that we've been distracted by so much noise and vulgarity when we could be trying to talk about how our country can get stronger.”

Trying Country Stronger Noise Our Country Upset Distracted Vulgarity

Author:Natalie Portman

“The way Trump talks about Obama: presidents don't do that! What we're seeing now is a whole new level of vulgarity. I'm really hoping that it's not the rule from here on out. It's really distressing for me to witness this. I really hope we don't have to throw all decency out the window, just because Trump's president.”

President Window Witness Decency Vulgarity

Author:David Sedaris

“I think cinema is better today that you can be more daring with what you do. If you do it well. With that comes a responsibility not to bore people with vulgarity and all that stuff. To know how to do it right, know how to lay it out there.”

People Thinking Today Responsibility Daring Vulgarity

Author:Ben Gazzara

“I think the reason for vulgarity is because of the freedom that there is now to do certain things, and a lack of sophistication on the part of some people who, in their work, like to give the impression of, "Has there been intercourse or not? Are they about to?" But they take it into a realm that has a vulgar touch to it.”

People Thinking Giving Reason Impression Vulgar Sophistication Vulgarity

Author:Polly Allen Mellen

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