Vulgarität / Vulgarity Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Vulgarität / Vulgarity:

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life. Cyril Connolly

Good taste is death; vulgarity is life.

Mary Quant

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

Oscar Wilde

Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause.

Rudolf Bing

I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics.

Chris Patten

America does not want vulgarity and sexual exploitation to be our values and we do not want the world to think those are our standards. We want to be a better nation and a better people, with better standards.

Charles W. Pickering

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

Doris Day

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

John Ruskin

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

E. M. Forster

There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is.

Roberto Cavalli

When I write, I keep the family audience in mind. I ensure there's no vulgarity, as families are coming into the theatres, and there's no blood and gore because of the kids. There is a set of people who doesn't like my cinema, but there's a bigger group that likes the kind of movies I make.

Rohit Shetty

The Asian-American kids I meet respond to a democracy in the vulgarity of my roles.

John Cho

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.

Cyril Connolly

This point seems counter-intuitive, given the amount of conspicuous vulgarity, vice, and immorality in America. Indeed some Islamic fundamentalists argue that their regimes are morally superior to the United States because they seek to foster virtue among the citizens.

Dinesh D'Souza

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

Coco Chanel

Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.

Vladimir Nabokov

I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity.

Julian Clary

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Alistair Cooke

People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity. Clean vulgarity can be very shocking and that, in my view, gives greater involvement.

Kenneth Williams

I love British cursing - the cadence of it, the joy in the sound of the words, and the vulgarity of it.

Christopher Moore

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.

Solomon Schechter