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Quotes about vulgarity
The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar. (Chesterton Gilbert K.)
Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of taste. (Chesterton Gilbert K.)
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. (Chesterton Gilbert K.)
It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon. (Chesterton Gilbert K.)
A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common (Chesterton Gilbert K.)
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. (Chesterton Gilbert K.)
Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar. (Chesterton Gilbert K.)
The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him. (Chesterton Gilbert K.)
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. (Chesterton Gilbert K.)
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness. (Chesterton Gilbert K.)
There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined. (Chesterton Gilbert K.)
Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of vulgarity that makes the whole world kin. (Chesterton Gilbert K.)
Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people. (Chesterton Gilbert K.)
Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. (Chesterton Gilbert K.)
Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun. (Chesterton Gilbert K.)
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