Quotes by Vulgarity Is To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. Alexander Pope vulgarity-israzorsblock 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 vulgarity-istrialsloss There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close. Barbara Stanwyck vulgarity-iscomedytragedy A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness Caitlin Thomas heartlessvulgarity-islittles 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. Chris Patten vulgarity-iscuttingthinking 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. Coco Chanel vulgarity-isfightinglying Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm. Cyril Connolly vulgarity-issaladliterature Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. E. M. Forster revealing-somethingvulgarity-isliterature Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness. Edith Sitwell vulgarity-isgodreality The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar. Gilbert K. Chesterton vulgarity-isclassmen 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 vulgarity-iscircussometimes 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 vulgarity-isinabilitypieces The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. J. Robert Oppenheimer vulgarity-iswarworld 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. J. Robert Oppenheimer vulgarity-issinhumor 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 vulgarity-isprinciplesneeds One man's vulgarity is another man's lyric. John Marshall Harlan II another-manvulgarity-ismen 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 vulgarity-ispainmay Vulgarity is no substitute for wit. Julian Fellowes vulgarity-iswitsubstitutes 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 vulgarity-isusualsoftball Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life. Mary Quant vulgarityvulgarity-istaste12»