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 worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.
Vulgarity is no substitute for wit
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.
The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene. . . is the movie vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't laugh. When we laugh, it's merely human nature.
There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is.
The undressed is vulgar; the nude is pure, and the well-dressed tainted.
The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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.
There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.
Vulgarity is setting store by the things which are seen.
The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
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.
Norbit operates on the principle that vulgarity is automatically funny. Crassness doesn't need a joke attached because it is (in and of itself) the height of hilarity.
Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause.
Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
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.
Vulgarity is innocent; urbanity is not.