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Alexander Pope
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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Alice James
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.
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Alistair Cooke
As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.
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Anonymous
Vulgarity is the rich man's modest contribution to democracy.
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Barbara Stanwyck
There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.
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Doris Day
Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.
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Edward M. Forster
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
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Mark Twain
There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.
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Oscar Wilde
Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.
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Solomon Schechter
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.
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