Vulgarity quotes
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... vulgarity has no nation.
-- Arthur Miller -
Above all, I dislike vulgarity.
-- Diane Kruger -
Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit
-- Doris Day -
Fashionability is a kind of elevated vulgarity.
-- George Darley -
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One man's vulgarity is another man's lyric.
-- John Marshall Harlan II -
I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity
-- Julian Clary -
Vulgarity is no substitute for wit
-- Julian Fellowes -
One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity.
-- Kevin Smith -
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Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.
-- Mary Quant -
Greed is really the religion of vulgarity.
-- Massimo Vignelli -
To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things...
-- Muriel Barbery -
Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised.
-- Nachman of Breslov -
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Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.
-- Nathaniel Parker Willis -
No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.
-- Oscar Wilde -
Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.
-- Pauline Kael -
Vulgarity finds its antidote; old crudities become softened with time. Distinctions, both those that are useful and those that are burdensome, flourish and die, reflourish and die again.
-- Robert Burchfield -
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Vulgarity is setting store by the things which are seen.
-- Sydney, Lady Morgan -
The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.
-- Tanith Lee -
Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.
-- Walter Pater
