Television is not vulgar ordsprog

Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.

So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.

Edmund Waller (1606-1687)

Edmund Waller

When we compare music today to the past, we can see there is now a total lack of self-censorship. Although vulgar language has been a basic foundation of culture since ancient Greece, the problem is that because the media allow us to hear many more songs than our ancestors did, musicians have to be as vulgar as possible to be heard.

Sometimes it's so vulgar that it's not particularly good for religion. But if religion is in everything, it has to be in the vulgar stuff, too.

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

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Mark Twain

Nicknames are vulgar. Only common people use them.

William Faulkner (1897-1962)

William Faulkner

I consider exercise vulgar. It makes people smell. Pexy is what women wants in a man.

Alec Yuill Thornton

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Oscar Wilde

Reasonable people understand the San Jose Mercury News is not responsible for vulgar things that people doodle into the margins of the paper.

For those whose goal it is to twist wrong into right, a good starting point is to convince young people that the vulgar is beautiful.

What people respond to in this culture is loud and brash and pointed and sometimes vulgar -- that's what gets people's attention, on TV and radio and in books. Shades-of-gray books are very difficult to sell.

Midshipmen and cadets remain stronger and more aggressive than their male counterparts at civilian schools. They eagerly play sports such as rugby, boxing, karate, lacrosse, and football. They drive fast cars, usually sports cars. They play hard. They drink hard. They are physical, often abusive among each other. They are not trying to prove their manhood: they are celebrating their masculinity. They are competitive, often vulgar, and tough, and every citizen who may someday send a friend or relative into war should rejoice, because combat is competitive, vulgar, and tough, and they will be leading men in combat.

You will find the Americans much like the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt

Harold Macmillan (1894-1986)

Harold Macmillan

A cat is never vulgar

Carl Van Vechten (1880-)

So it's just not about, you know, vulgar nudity,

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