The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

— Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of taste.

— Connolly, Cyril

It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness.

— Durrell, Lawrence

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

— Forster, Edward M.

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.

— James, Alice

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common

— Nazlitt, William

To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

— Pope, Alexander

Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.

— Proverb, Greek

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

— Ruskin, John

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.

— Schechter, Solomon

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

— Sitwell, Dame Edith

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

— Twain, Mark

Vulgarity is the rich man's modest contribution to democracy.

— Unknown, Source

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.

— Wilde, Oscar

Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.

— Wilde, Oscar

Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

— Wilde, Oscar

Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.

— Willis, Nathaniel P.