Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
quote by E.M. Forster
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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.
quote by Kenneth Williams
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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.
quote by John Ruskin
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Vulgar Virginity
Vulgarity should be
the main cosmetic
for the men of production
whether in field, factory
or any other creative arena
vulgarity should be first need
to combat the camouflaged sanctity
behind which the real blood-sucker
hiding their nails and teeth
to plant their own heels
vulgarity, the genuine force of defying
colourful masks to exhibit artificial reality
to attack the
nakedness in disguise of implemented sanity
civilization marching long to reach a dawn
full of light and fragrance of full-bloomed buds
but sadly nearing the dusk full of greed and garbage
full of bossing and enslaving by two-footed animals
their weapons are hungry to erase the creations
so dear your vulgar insanity become the bold blow
to crack the mirror where your last dropp of life
cultivate the real beauty which lies beneath
the spastic dilemma of cosmetised purity!
Pranab k c
13/10/2011
poem by Pranab K. Chakraborty
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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
quote by Lord Byron
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I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity.
quote by Julian Clary
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To The Stars On The Wings Of A Pig
be not hopeless
because my dear even with the wings of a pig
we can still reach the hands of the
stars...
just have that heart
the good one of course
the one that redeems the
coarseness
of humanity.
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.
quote by Vladimir Nabokov
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Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.
quote by Cyril Connolly
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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
quote by Arthur Schopenhauer
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Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.
Shepherds Of The Nation
Sung by mr. black the do-gooders
Down with sex and sin,
Down with pot, heroin.
Down with pornography,
Down with lust.
Down with vice lechery and debauchery.
We are the new centurians.
Shepherds of the nations.
Well keep on our guard
For sin and degradation.
We are the national guard
Against filth and depravity,
Perversion and vulgarity,
Homosexuality.
Keep it clean.
Down with nudity,
Breasts that are bare and pubic hair.
We are here to cleanse humanity
From the man in the raincoats
Pale faced glare.
So sodomites beware.
We are the new centurians,
Shepherds of the nation.
Well keep on our guard
For sin and degradation.
We are the national, guard
Against filth and depravity,
Perversion and vulgarity,
Homosexuality.
Keep it clean.
I visualise a day when people will be free
From evils like perversion and pornography.
Well cast out satan and well set the sinners free,
So people of the nation unite.
Put all the pervs in jail,
Bring back the birch, and the cat of nine tails.
Bring back corporal punishment
Bring back the stocks
And the axemans block.
Let righteousness prevail.
Down with nudity and hard core magazines.
Well bring religion back
And keep our country clean.
Keep it clean.
We are the new centurians
Shepherds of the nation.
Well keep on our guard
For sin and degradation.
We are the national guard
Against filth and depravity.
Perversion and vulgarity,
Homosexuality.
Keep it clean.
song performed by by Kinks
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
quote by Oscar Wilde
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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.
quote by Solomon Schechter
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As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.
quote by Alistair Cooke
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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.
quote by J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
quote by Coco Chanel
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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.
quote by Chris Patten
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Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause.
quote by Rudolf Bing
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