A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common
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.
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.
It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness.
The higher a man stands, the more the word ''vulgar'' becomes unintelligible to him.
The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.
Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.
Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.
Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.
Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of taste.
Vulgarity is the rich man's modest contribution to democracy.
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of vulgarity that makes the whole world kin.