Quotes About Vulgarity

To fall for", "to be fallen for"- I feel in these words something unspeakably vulgar, farcical, and at the same time extraordinarily complacent.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people

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.

Vol minachting keek hij naar al die waterhoofden waarin de slogans en gemeenplaatsen van een ten dode opgeschreven Systeem als kikkerdril samenklonterden en ronddreven. Naar die voortbrengers niet van de denkende, fijngevoelige, gecultiveerde, vrijheidslievende en schoonheidminnende mens, maar de van alle soorten banaalste en vulgairste: de Koopkrachtige Mens, de modale zaterdagmiddagklant van de Supermarkt. Wie niet kocht, bestond niet.

Of course, it is most of all dirt that gives the roughness its edge; filth and vulgarity are natural, obscenity is joyous: with these the spectacle takes on its socially liberating role, for by nature the popular theatre is anti-authoritarian, anti- traditional, anti-pomp, anti-pretence. This is the theatre of noise, and the theatre of noise is the theatre of applause.

As soon as David returned home to bless his own household, Saulís daughter Michal came out to meet him. “How the king of Israel has distinguished himself today!” she said. “He has uncovered himself today in the sight of the maidservants of his subjects, like a vulgar person would do.”