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

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

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.

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common

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.

Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.

To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of taste.

Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.

Vulgarity is the rich man's modest contribution to democracy.

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.