People call things 'vulgar' when they are new to them. When they have become old, they become 'good taste.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.
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.
There are those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity.
The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway.
Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.
The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.
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.
When people are nasty, it gets everybody's attention, and it gives them a name.
Good taste is death; vulgarity is life.