Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roger Ebert

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.

William Hazlitt

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.

Mary Quant

Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.

Mark Twain

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

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.

Caitlin Thomas

A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness

Barbara Stanwyck

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

E. M. Forster

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

Tanith Lee

The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.

Roger Ebert

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.

William Hazlitt

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.

Mary Quant

Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.

Mark Twain

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

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.

Caitlin Thomas

A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness

Barbara Stanwyck

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

Arthur Miller

... vulgarity has no nation.

E. M. Forster

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

William Hazlitt

His worst is better than any other person's best.

Trick Daddy

I am allergic highly to the sun; that's my worst enemy.

Richard Pryor

I had some great things and I had some bad things. The best and the worst . . . In other words, I had a life.

Salma Hayek

If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.

Whitney Houston

Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.

Rudy Giuliani

Hillary Clinton's been the worst violator of cyber security so far in the history of the United States.

Nikolai Khabibulin

I have to get better. The worst thing to do is get frustrated.

Jonathan Swift

I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.

Henry Ford

Mediocrity is the worst enemy of prosperity.