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Quotes About Vulgarity

Glamour has been an integral part of showbiz from a longtime and the whole debate about exposing and vulgarity is blown out of proportions.
~ Priyamani
We're premiering 'The Neon Demon' in Cannes, which is the representation of 'The Neon Demon,' which is all about glamour and vulgarity.
~ Nicolas Winding Refn
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yet there is nothing so vulgar left in our present cultural experience for which some professor cannot be found somewhere to justify it. Reason has died.
~ Ravi Zacharias
They came to study the dreadful vulgarity of this imaginary Mass Man they pretend to hate. But they're fascinated with the snake-pit.
~ Ray Bradbury
Donald Trump is worth I don't know how many millions, but his confident vulgarity will always keep him from being viewed as other than monstrously rich (perhaps more monster than rich), and if he were to be certified as upper class, many others put in that category would doubtless do what they could to find a new social class to fit into.
~ Joseph Epstein
You're an asshole, you know that? Stick your finger up your butt and take a whiff. That's you. A piece of shit!
~ Judy Blume
If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big color photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer. Such vulgarity is healthy and safe.
~ Werner Herzog
Parce que le mot à leurs yeux ne devient vraiment gros que lorsqu'on l'écrit, on s'en "branle" à l'oral, on s'en "bat les couilles à longueur de journée, on "nique ta mère" à tire larigot. Mais trouver le mot "couille" ou le verbe "branler" et "niquer" noir sur blanc, dans un livre, quand leur place est sur les murs des toilettes, alors ça...
~ Daniel Pennac
Intentionally rude and vulgar, he took pleasure in the discomfort of others.
~ Daniel Silva
He wiped one last fragment of bread around his bowl, popped it in his mouth, and simultaneously belched loudly. Inos winced. Such vulgarity was a compliment in Zark, she knew, but there were some local customs that she found harder to accept than others.
~ Dave Duncan
Profanity is the linguistic crutch of inarticulate fuckheads.
~ James Carlos Blake
The divide between the wealthy and everyone else is a false dichotomy—and one that obscures the real problem: there are many wicked people in the world, rich and poor. That is the real divide—between those who strive to do good, and those who strive only for themselves. Money magnifies the harm the wealthy can do, of course, allowing them to parade their vulgarity and malfeasance in full view of the rest of us.
~ Douglas Preston
In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable - than to be civil or creative or truly original.
~ Al Gore
If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.
~ Eazy-E
They had wandered in a defeated continent of the vulgar world, where vulgarity had lost its power and its pride, and had to repeat old jokes because it could no longer invent new ones, and speak of virtues in phrases so worn by use that they gave the same feeling of want as rags.
~ Rebecca West
Sybil, vulgarity is no substitute for wit.
~ Julian Fellowes
Th' poxy, slivey, cuntbitten shicers!
~ Julian Stockwin
There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion!
~ William Congreve
A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... The movie is vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't laugh. When we laugh, it's merely human nature.
~ Roger Ebert
Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.
~ William Hazlitt
Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken.
~ William Hazlitt
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
~ Edith Sitwell