#vulgarity

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#life #salad #vulgarity

I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#game #luxury #modesty #vulgarity #love

It is wrong to wear diamonds before luncheon, except on one’s marriage rings. Before, after, and during breakfast, luncheon and dinner, it is vulgar to wear a mixture of colored precious stones. It is always a comfort to know that so many things one can’t afford to do anyway are vulgar. ↗

— Judith Martin

#etiquette #vulgarity #marriage

All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#vulgarity #love

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit. ↗

— Doris Day

#explicit #imagination #vulgarity

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#concealing #distinction #his #notable #revealing

[O]ne man's vulgarity is another's lyric. ↗

— John Marshall Harlan

#lyrics #vulgarity #censorship

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#cannot #century #death #explain #facts