Very notable was his distinction
between coarseness and vulgarity,
coarseness, revealing something;
vulgarity, concealing something.
?Edward M. Forster
There is a point in portraying surface
vulgarity where tragedy
and comedy are very close.
?Barbara Stanwyck
Vulgarity begins when imagination
succumbs to the explicit.
?Doris Day
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
As always, the British especially shudder
at the latest American vulgarity,
and then they embrace it with enthusiasm
two years later.
?Alistair Cooke
A thing is not vulgar merely
because it is common
?William Nazlitt
