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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.
-Solomon Schechter
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A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure. When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?
-William Shakespeare
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It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.
-William Shakespeare
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Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life... is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.
-Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
-Dame Edith Sitwell
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A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?
-Jonathan Swift
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Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.
-Jeremy Taylor
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There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.
-Mark Twain
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Vulgarity is the rich man's modest contribution to democracy.
-Source Unknown
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The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
-George Washington
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Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.
-E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White
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The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.
-Oscar Wilde
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Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of vulgarity that makes the whole world kin.
-Oscar Wilde
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Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.
-Oscar Wilde
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Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.
-Nathaniel P. Willis
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Books about Profanity, Swearing, Vulgarity
