Quotes About Vulgarity

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.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit

If the Northerners were acting the Will of God, the Southerners were rescuing a hallowed ideal of gallantry, aristocratic freedom, fine manners and luxurious living from the materialism and vulgarity of the mercantile Northern society.

And then the old exhortations would come out: observe everything…trust nobody…despise your mother…effort is vulgar…things were better in the eighteenth century.

He growled. "You know quite well that that locution is vile.

To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things.

Everyone experiences bouts of jealousy; but the dignified person conceals it, while the vulgar one acts upon it

How glad I am I need not hurry. What a waste of life, just getting and spending. Sitting by my pansy beds, with the slow clouds floating leisurely past, and all the clear day before me, I look on at the hot scramble for the pennies of existence and am lost in wonder at the vulgarity that pushes, and cringes, and tramples, untiring and unabashed. And when you have got your pennies, what then?

The first discipline modernitys originators imposed upon themselves was that of self-restraint, learning to live with vulgarity. Their high expectations for effectiveness were made possible by low expectations of what was to be.

La gente realmente intelligente e aperta non implorerebbe queste spiegazioni. Solo la gente volgare vuole spiegare tutto, anche quello che non si spiega. Perché dovrei dare spiegazioni che gli stupidi non comprenderebbero e di cui le menti più fini non avrebbero voglia?

Les imbéciles ne pensent qu'à partager leurs merveilles avec la multitude, ce qui est le plus sûr moyen de perdre son butin, et surtout de le voir se muer en une chose vulgaire.

Mi fa orrore la musica di sottofondo, innanzitutto perché non esiste cosa più volgare, e poi perché le melodie più belle possono entrare in testa con tale insistenza da trasformarsi in canzonette. Non esiste l'amore di sottofondo, la letteratura di sottofondo, il pensiero di sottofondo: esiste il rumore di fondo, che è una cosa orribile, un veleno.

Greed is really the religion of vulgarity.

It seems the door to permissiveness, the door to lewdness and vulgarity and obscenity swings only one way. It only opens farther and farther; it never seems to swing back. Individuals can choose to close it, but it is certain, historically speaking, that public appetite and public policy will not close it. No, in the moral realm the only real control you have is self-control.

Ko visp?r noz?m? - kr?pt? [..] Kr?pt - cik vulg?rs v?rds, ar ko apz?m?t smalk?ko, gal?jo neapmierin?t?bu, mekl?jumus p?c kaut k? vair?k, arvien vair?k...

There is no language so filthy as Spanish. There are words for all the vile words in English and there are other words and expressions that are used only in countries where blasphemy keeps pace with the austerity of religion.

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I'm not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent - just like there's a side of me that's vulgar and violent.

nothing can compete with the vulgarity of snobbish or bought correct taste.

There is a certain kind of humor that rises below vulgarity. It isn't merely in the worst possible taste; it aspires to be in the worst possible taste.

The dream: to know a foreign language yet not to understand it: to perceive the difference in it without that difference ever being recuperated by the superficial sociality of discourse, communication or vulgarity... to undo our own "reality" under the effect of other formulations, other syntaxes... in a word, to descend into the untranslatable.

If you think one thing is sacred but you cannot stand the other, if you love the Creator but hate the creation, that is vulgarity.

Aldous Huxley absolutely detested mass culture and popular entertainment, and many of his toughest critical essays, as well as several intense passages in his fiction, consist of sneers and jeers at the cheapness of the cinematic ethic and the vulgarity of commercial music.

One did not walk around the town with one's birth certificate stuck on one's back; why then should clothes have their labels on the outside? It was a very vulgar display, she felt

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.