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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
Above all, I dislike vulgarity.
People call things 'vulgar' when they are new to them. When they have become old, they become 'good taste.'
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
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.
Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
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.
But a dandy can never be a vulgar man.
The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.