Quotes About Vulgarity

To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity. It seemed a worthwhile goal for prospective saints and flagellants. The new asceticism. All the visionary possibilities of the fast. To feed on the plants and animals of earth. To expand and wallow. I cherished his size, the formlessness of it, the sheer vulgar pleasure, his sense of being overwritten prose. Somehow it was the opposite of death.

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.

Sometimes to return is a vulgarity.

The sun moved, came on me, made me erotic. Sometimes to return is a vulgarity. The profoundest distances are never geographical.

How sad is it when a luxurious imagination is obliged in self defense to deaden its delicacy in vulgarity, and riot in things attainable that it may not have leisure to go mad after things which are not.

But normally, when Albertine was sleeping, she seemed to have recovered her innocence. In the position where I had placed her, but which in sleep she quickly made her own, she seemed to be trusting herself to me. Her face had lost any expression of deviousness or vulgarity, and when she raised her arm toward me or laid her hand upon me, each of us seemed entirely given up to the other, indissolubly joined.

la realidad es mucho más vulgar, más mediocre, más chata.

When an editor once tried to kill herself by diving in front of a subway train, Edna Chase was pained by her vulgarity. If a Vogue editor was forced to resort to suicide, she should have enough sense to swallow sleeping powders instead of leaving messes for the city sanitation department.

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

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.

Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.

I love vulgarity, good taste is death, vulgarity is life

Unfortunately, there are designers and marketing people who intentionally look down on the consumer with the notion that vulgarity has a definite appeal to the masses, and therefore they supply the market with a continuos flow of crude and vulgar design. I consider this action criminal since it is producing visual pollution that is degrading our environment just like all other types of pollution.

Peeling an apple with a sword is not something original; it is vulgar!

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

Kakva sablasna rije?: frajle! A ipak! Koliko je dubokih tajna pokopano u toj tako vulgarnoj rije?i, koju panonski foringaši izgovaraju, skupljaju?i pri tome pljuva?ku pod jezikom ga?enja i moralnoga prezira!

Another thing those kind nuns had done was to teach him to say 'the toilet' when he meant the po or the lavatory, which was a vulgarity no one seemed able to straighten out.

The classical languages have educational value because they are safe from the vulgarity with which modern life corrupts languages in use.

Vulgarity is not a product of the people but a subproduct of bourgeois prosperity.

The price for absolute freedom is boundless vulgarity.

False elegance is preferable to genuine vulgarity. The man who dwells in an imaginary palace demands more from himself than the man who is happy with his hovel.

Civilization is what is born when the soul does not surrender to its congenital vulgarity.

Vulgarity consists as much in disrespecting what deserves respect as in respecting what does not deserve it.

To adore. To be adored." What vulgar words, there is something shallow and too self-satisfied in them. Just when these words are spoken on a festive occasion, a magnificent temple starts to fall, and after that, there is only complete indifference.