best quotations about
Vulgarity |
and Profanity
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Quotations
 | The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar. — Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469-1527, Italian political philosopher 10 likes |
 | At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves. — Jean Baudrillard, 1929-2007, French intellectual 8 likes |
 | Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 6 likes |
 | Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 6 likes |
 | The need to be always right is the sign of a vulgar mind. — Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French writer, Nobel 1957 6 likes |
 | With today's movies, if we took out all the bad language, we'd go back to silent films. — Bob Hope, 1903-2003, American comedian 5 likes |
 | Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting. — George Orwell, 1903-1950, British writer 5 likes |
| Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 5 likes |
 | Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 4 likes |
 | Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton. — Wilson Mizner, 1876-1913, American playwright 4 likes |
 | Individualism is the cradle of vulgarity. — Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer 4 likes |
 | Money doesn't talk, it swears. — Bob Dylan, 1941-, American singer [Nobel 2016] 4 likes |
 | It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene. — José Saramago, 1922-2010, Portuguese writer [Nobel 1998] 4 likes |
 | Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 4 likes |
 | In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal and so ill-bred, as audible laughter. — Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer 3 likes |
 | I had three rules for my players: No profanity. Don’t criticize a teammate. Never be late. — John Wooden, 1910-2010, American basketball coach 3 likes |
 | Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of taste. — Cyril Connolly, 1903-1974, British writer 3 likes |
 | Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. — Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, British philosopher 2 likes |
 | You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 2 likes |
| One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 2 likes |
| There is an illiteracy of the soul which no diploma cures. |
 | Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing. |
 | Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. |
 | Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken. |
 | It’s not the reality that’s vulgar, it’s the ideal. |
 | Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it. |
 | If a donkey bray at you, don’t bray at him. |
 | Frugality is for the vulgar. |
| Sensuality is a cultural legacy of the ancient world. Societies where the Greco-Roman legacy is being wiped out, or where it does not exist, only know sentimentalism and sexuality. |
Ancient Greek
 | A demagogue must be neither an educated nor a honest man; he has to be ignorant and a rogue. Η δημαγωγία γαρ ού προς μουσικού ετ’ εστίν ανδρός ουδέ χρηστού τους τρόπους, αλλ’ εις αμαθή και βδελυρόν. — Aristophanes, 445-386 BC, Ancient Greek comic playwright 6 likes |
 | You may have the power to slander, but I have the power not to listen to you. Του μεν κακώς λέγειν συ την εξουσίαν έχεις, του δε μη ακούειν εγώ. — Aristippus, 435-355 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher (refusing to continue a debate) 5 likes |
| Sacrilege or not, I want to crap. Κει θέμις εστίν, νυνί γ᾽ ήδη, κει μη θέμις εστί, χεσείω. — Aristophanes, 445-386 BC, Ancient Greek comic playwright ‐ Clouds 3 likes |
 | Not speaking well of others is not only sinful by itself, but lets evil intrude into the soul. Το μη καλώς λέγειν ου μόνον εις αυτό τούτο πλημμελές, αλλά και κακόν τι εμποιεί ταίς ψυχαίς. — Socrates, 469-399 BC, Ancient Geek Philosopher 3 likes |
 | The good man does not repeat the censure of the mean. Μωμεομένων φλαύρων ο αγαθός ου ποιέεται λόγον. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 3 likes |
 | Not to hold your anger at all is rude and vulgar. Το γαρ μηδαμού κρατείν οργής απαίδευτον και ακόλαστον. — Plutarch, 47-120 AD, Ancient Greek historian 3 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | Why don't you go outside and jerk yourself a soda? — from the film Bugsy (1991) 2 likes |
