Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar. – Proverb
Take not Gods name in vain; select a time when it will have effect. – Ambrose Bierce
I drink a lot of Diet Coke and belch. Ive been known to use the f word. – Helena Bonham Carter
Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin
The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar. – G. K. Chesterton
Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of taste. – Cyril Connolly
It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme rudely appealed to on each trifling theme. – William Cowper
Its only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness. – Lawrence Durrell
Twas but my tongue, twas not my soul that swore. – Euripides
Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst. – George Farquhar
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. – E. M. Forster
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language. – Edward Gibbon
Ethelberta breathed a sort of exclamation, not right out, but stealthily, like a parsons damn. – Thomas Hardy
Here is the piece. If you cant say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment. – Ernest Hemingway
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. – Alice James
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another. – Herbert Marcuse
Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk. – Henry Miller
A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common – William Nazlitt
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. – Alexander Pope
The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him. – John Ruskin
