Vulgarity is no substitute for wit
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.
The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
Vulgarity is setting store by the things which are seen.
Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.
Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.
Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.
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.
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 more obvious in satin than in homespun.
Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
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.
There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is.
The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics.
A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.
Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause.
By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
