#vulgar

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

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

— E. M. Forster

#concealing #distinction #his #notable #revealing

Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns. ↗

— George Gilder

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They say it figures MTV would do such a vulgar, awful, horrible show and they completely miss that it's satirizing the people who watch MTV. ↗

— Mike Judge

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How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians. ↗

— Horace Walpole

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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. ↗

— Orson Welles

#anything #i #i do #just #money

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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[O]ne man's vulgarity is another's lyric. ↗

— John Marshall Harlan

#lyrics #vulgarity #censorship

Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause. ↗

— Rudolf Bing

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