Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.
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.
People call things 'vulgar' when they are new to them. When they have become old, they become 'good taste.'
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.
Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
Above all, I dislike 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.
So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
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.