Vulgarism Quotes & Sayings

We are compelled to choose," he sometimes complained, "between the savagery of Communism and the vulgarism of America. — Pearl S. Buck

The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant. — Thomas Carlyle

Those who are addicted to the phrase "to use a vulgarism" expect to achieve the feat of being at once vulgar and superior to vulgarity. — Henry Watson Fowler

Vulgarism in language is the distinguishing characteristic of bad company, and a bad education. A man of fashion avoids nothing with more care than that. Proverbial expressions, and trite sayings, are the flowers of the rhetoric of vulgar man. — Lord Chesterfield

Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give it life, one adjective only which will describe it. One must search until one has discovered them, this noun, this verb, this adjective, and never rest content with approximations, never resort to trickery, however happy, or to vulgarism, in order to dodge the difficulty. — Guy De Maupassant