Vulgarity

(269 votes)   There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(157 votes)   Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

Edward M. Forster
1879-1970, British Novelist, Essayist

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(152 votes)   The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(145 votes)   Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(143 votes)   Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.

Greek Proverbs
Sayings of Greek Origin

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(129 votes)   To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

Alexander Pope
1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator

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(123 votes)   Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

Dame Edith Sitwell
1887-1964, British Poet

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(119 votes)   It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness.

Lawrence Durrell
1912-1990, British Author

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(117 votes)   Vulgarity is the rich man's modest contribution to democracy.

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(110 votes)   Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(106 votes)   Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.

Nathaniel P. Willis
1806-1867, Polish American Poet, writer, editor

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(104 votes)   It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.

Alice James
1848-1892, American Diarist, Sister of Henry, William James

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(98 votes)   Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of vulgarity that makes the whole world kin.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(96 votes)   A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common

William Nazlitt

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