Alice James
Writer
"It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon."
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Vulgarity Is
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writer, Journalist
"The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar."
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime."
Coco Chanel
Fashion Designer
"I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it."
Vladimir Nabokov
Novelist
"Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity."
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"Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something."
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"Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people."
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"There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined."
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"There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation."
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"Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away."
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"Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun."
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"The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar."
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"The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort."
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"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."
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"Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus."
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"Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse."
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