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Quotes About Vulgarity

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
This is a bawdy tale. Herein you will find gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity, as well as non-traditional grammar, split infinitives, and the odd wank.
~ Christopher Moore
WARNING This is a bawdy tale. Herein you will find gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity, as well as non-traditional grammar, split infinitives, and the odd wank. If that sort of thing bothers you, then gentle reader pass by, for we endeavor only to entertain, not to offend. That said, if that's the sort of thing you think you might enjoy, then you have happened upon the perfect story!
~ Christopher Moore
His words were: hello, good-bye, yes, no, please, thank you, okay, sorry, and suck my dick. He
~ Christopher Moore
Vulgarity is an old Narcissus who adores himself and applauds the common vulgarity.
~ Victor Hugo
Such words he spoke, but they are not his words. He was a vulgar, low-minded man, and vile oaths fell continually from his lips.
~ Jack London
Profanity is the common crutch of the conversational cripple. —DAVID KEUCK
~ Terry Felber
Grossness is not difficult to define: it is obtrusive and objectionable pleasantry.
~ Theophrastus
El cinismo es la única fuerza bajo la cual las almas vulgares rozan lo que se llama sinceridad»
~ Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm
Such language, Babette says. Why don't you just take a dump in my ears!
~ chuck pahlaniuk
1894, George Saintsbury was confident that "a fondness for Miss Austen" could be considered "itself a patent of exemption from any possible charge of vulgarity.
~ Claire Harman
Despite our tiffs, despite her nastiness, despite all the fuss and faces she made, and the vulgarity, and the danger, and the horrible hopelessness of it all, I still dwelled deep in my elected paradise - a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames - but still a paradise.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Many fellow exils of mine denounce indignantly (and in this indignation there is a pinch of pleasure) fashionable abominations, including current dances. But fashion is a creature of man's mediocrity, a certain level of life, the vulgarity of equality, and to denounce it means admitting that mediocrity can create something (whether it be a form of government or a new kind of hairdo) worth making a fuss about.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Fuck a motherfucking fuckduck" - Wraith
~ Larissa Ione
Shite and onions!
~ James Joyce
Obscenity comes from grime.
~ Christopher Hitchens
I do not condemn the cult of pleasure; I lament the general vulgarity.
~ Octavio Paz
Only vulgar people boast about how happy they are
~ Orhan Pamuk
I like all the disgusting things that are fine just being themselves. What's wrong with a little honest vulgarity?
~ Orhan Pamuk
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And falsehoods the truths of other people. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
~ Oscar Wilde
In following the Way, the noble-minded treasure three things: a manner free of violence and arrogance, a countenance full of sincerity and trust, a voice free of vulgarity and impropriety.
~ Confucius
It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness.
~ Lawrence Durrell
The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.
~ lee tanith ii
A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success, and is based on blindness to the nobility of the effort, is vulgar.
~ Leo Strauss