Quotes on Vulgarity Is

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

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.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

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.

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.

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.