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.

As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar it will cease to be popular.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything making everything vulgar and every truth false.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth or in affectation.

Manners require time and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

There is a vulgar incredulity which in historical matters as well as in those of religion finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

Politics in a literary work is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert something vulgar and however something which is impossible to ignore.

On July 26 1916 I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

Those years on the golf course as a caddie boy those people were something. They were vulgar some were alcoholics racist they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor.

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.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Arguments are extremely vulgar for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

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

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Vulgar and obscene the papers run rumors daily about people in show business tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

You could say in a vulgar Freudian way that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.