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.
In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
Greed is really the religion of vulgarity.
Vulgarity is no substitute for wit
Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit
Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief.
Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.
There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.
Intemperance is the only vulgarity.
Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause.
Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.
To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things.
Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.
Just let matters slide. How much better to accept each sweet drop of the honey that was Time, than to stoop to the vulgarity latent in every decision. However grave the matter at hand might be, if one neglected it for long enough, the act of neglect itself would begin to affect the situation, and someone else would emerge as an ally. Such was Count Ayakura's version of political theory.
Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.
Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.
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.
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.
Vulgarity is innocent; urbanity is not.