Vulgarity Quotes

“Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.”
― Coco Chanel

“I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.”
― Mel Brooks

“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.”
― Coco Chanel

“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.”
― Werner Herzog

“Vulgarity is like a fine wine: it should only be uncorked on a special occasion, and then only shared with the right group of people.”
― James Rozoff

“And then I remember this morning and I wonder if it really happened or if I dreamed it. It was nice. And weird. And tender. I'm not used to tender. It's a fossil, that word. Conditions changed and it died out. Like the woolly mammoth. It just couldn't live in the same world as dick box. Ho dog. Or wiener cousins.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

“They are all very serious people with stern expressions on their faces. They discuss nothing but important matters and like to philosophize a great deal, while at the same time everyone can see that the workers are detestably fed, sleep without suitable bedding, thirty to forty in a room with bedbugs everywhere, the stench, the dampness, and the moral corruption... Obviously all our fine talk has gone on simply to hoodwink ourselves and other people as well. Show me the day nurseries that they're talking about so much about. And where are the libraries? Why, they just write about nurseries and libraries in novels, while in fact not a single one even exists. What does exist is nothing but dirt, vulgarity, and a barbarian way of life... I dislike these terribly serious faces, they frighten me, and I'm afraid of serious conversations, too. We'd be better off if we all would just shut up for a while!”
― Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard

“Ah fuckin hate the way some American cunts call lassies cunts. Fuckin offensive, that shite.”
― Irvine Welsh, Dead Men's Trousers

“First, however, I must deal with the matter of Jesus, the so-called savior, who not long ago taught new doctrines and was thought to be a son of God. This savior, I shall attempt to show, deceived many and caused them to accept a form of belief harmful to the well-being of mankind. Taking its root in the lower classes, the religion continues to spread among the vulgar: nay, one can even say it spreads because of its vulgarity and the illiteracy of its adherents. And while there are a few moderate, reasonable, and intelligent people who interpret its beliefs allegorically, yet it thrives in its purer form among the ignorant.”
― Celsus, On the True Doctrine: A Discourse Against the Christians

“You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words.”
― Pablo Picasso

“[O]ne man's vulgarity is another's lyric.”
― John Marshall Harlan

“Shut the front door!”
― Jaci Burton, Taking a Shot

“All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark.”
― Laurence Sterne

“Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But they were all around; it was Manlius who lived in a dream world, and his bubble of civility was becoming smaller and smaller. Caius Valerius, powerful member of a powerful family, had never even heard of Plato. A hundred, even fifty years before, such an absurdity would have been inconceivable. Now it was surprising if such a man did know anything of philosophy, and even if it was explained, he would not wish to understand.”
― Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio

“The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity'
of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic) rhetoric: 'The subject,' says one handbook for amateur photographers, 'must be simple, free of useless accessories; this is called the Search for Unity.”
― Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

“Children wish, vulgar men hope and real men act immediately after considering all the alternatives.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Outside the secure space of the circle, vulgarity accumulates. Ada loathes vulgarity because it's there that misery hides. She knows that misery is destructive and, as such, ephemeral.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

“Passionless is vulgar ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka")”
― William S. Wilson, Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka

“She asked if she could pray for her 'new father'—for the Italian!" "Did you let her?" "I got up without saying anything." "You must have felt just as you did when I wanted to pray for the devil." "He is the devil," cried Harriet. "No, Harriet; he is too vulgar.”
― E. M. Forster, WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD Annotated book

“یکی از ویژگی های نبوغ این است که فکرش را به کوبیده راه هایی که ابتذال ترسیم کرده نیندازد.
(ص 428 نشر چشمه)”
― Stendhal, Le Rouge et le Noir

“Listen to the birds, their lyrics are not profane, yet the entire world wants to hear them sing.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“Sonnet of Nonconformity

Nonconformity is no sign of character,
Nor is swinging on wrecking balls.
Vulgarity is the same as animal liberty,
Only accountability adorns our civilized halls.
Clothes have no bearing on civilization,
Nor does allegiance to law and order.
But habits that endorse self-absorption,
Breed nothing but degradation and disorder.
Perverted animals belong in the jungle,
Self-regulation is vital in civilized society.
If we are to take this world forward,
We must stand tall with honor and sanity.
Naked or not a human is always responsible.
Unregulated freedom sustains a world most cruel.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society

“More often than not, all that would be needed to complete the cure would be for the sick man to show a little imagination.”
― Joris-Karl Huysmans, Against Nature

“Dentro y solo de nuevo, y la locura de la noche la locura del día.”
― Charles Bukowski

“When an editor once tried to kill herself by diving in front of a subway train, Edna Chase was pained by her vulgarity. If a Vogue editor was forced to resort to suicide, she should have enough sense to swallow sleeping powders instead of leaving messes for the city sanitation department.”
― Marion Meade, Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?

“Vulgarity is repetition.”
― Syed Buali Gillani

“Accepting obscenity as freedom of expression,
Is like showing tolerance to intolerance.
Posing butt naked on instagram, unless you're pornstar,
Is like barging into capitol with a flag confederate.
We must find a balance between comfort and conscience.
Civilization falls apart when we can't tell the difference.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence

“Often times obscenity is but an outburst of insecurity, by empowering obscenity we empower mental imbalance.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence

“What a foul mouth she had,” he told me after finishing a bottle of wine, “but she sure knew how to love a man.”

To say I was uncomfortable to hear my father speak like that about a woman was an understatement. The fact that it wasn’t my mother made it even worse.”
― Lorena Hughes, The Spanish Daughter

“Neither burqa nor bikini is the sign of progress,
they only depict personal choice, nothing more.
Grow out of clothes, and look into character,
only then you'll get to see the sapiens glow.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets