Vulgarity Is Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Breathing, Comfort, Moral

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• Vulgarity is innocent; urbanity is not.

  Mason Cooley

  Innocent, Sophistication, Vulgarity

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• Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Circus, Sometimes, Clown

  "London Music in 1888-89 as Heard by Corno Di Bassetto: (later Known as Bernard Shaw) with Some Further Autobiographical Particulars". Book by Bernard Shaw, 1917.

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• The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... The movie is vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't laugh. When we laugh, it's merely human nature.

  Roger Ebert

  Hygiene, Laughing, Taste

  Roger Ebert's review of "American Wedding", www.rogerebert.com. August 1, 2003.

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• 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.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Softball, Usual, News

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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

  Tanith Lee

  Vulgar, Worst, Vulgarity

  Tanith Lee (2013). “The Silver Metal Lover”, p.55, Hachette UK

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• Norbit operates on the principle that vulgarity is automatically funny. Crassness doesn't need a joke attached because it is (in and of itself) the height of hilarity.

  James Berardinelli

  Principles, Needs, Hilarity

  "Norbit (United States, 2007)". Movie Review, www.reelviews.net.

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• Vulgarity is setting store by the things which are seen.

  Sydney, Lady Morgan

  Stores, Settings, Vulgarity

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• One man's vulgarity is another man's lyric.

  John Marshall Harlan II

  Men, Another Man, One Man

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• If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big color photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer. Such vulgarity is healthy and safe.

  Werner Herzog

  Book, Thinking, Color

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Vulgarity is no substitute for wit.

  Julian Fellowes

  Substitutes, Wit, Vulgarity

  "Downton Abbey: Series Three. Episode 3". TV Series, 2010 - 2015.

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• Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And falsehoods the truths of other people. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fashion, Husband, People

  "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

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• Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.

  Mary Quant

  Taste, Vulgarity, Good Taste

  "Why Mary Quant's Swinging Sixties London Look Stills Holds Sway" by Lynn Yaeger, www.vogue.com. February 11, 2015.

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

  Caitlin Thomas

  Heartless, Littles, Niceness

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• 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.

  Diana Vreeland

  Appreciation, Nice, Thinking

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• Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.

  Pauline Kael

  Artist, Destructive, Snobbery

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inability, Pieces, Spirituality

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Aaron Ridley, Judith Norman (2005). “Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings”, p.190, Cambridge University Press

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• 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.

  John Ruskin

  Pain, May, Whole

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.59, University of Virginia Press

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