Quotes: 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.

I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics.

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.

By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

America does not want vulgarity and sexual exploitation to be our values and we do not want the world to think those are our standards. We want to be a better nation and a better people, with better standards.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.

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.