Above all, I dislike vulgarity.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
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.
Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.
I don't do any vulgar movements.
Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity.
Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all.
Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.
People call things 'vulgar' when they are new to them. When they have become old, they become 'good taste.'
Good taste is death; vulgarity is life.