#vulgar

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#beautiful #created #excessively #ideal #man

I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation. ↗

— Jenny Eclair

#i #i think #incredibly #like #marriage

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#mind #thrilled #vice #vulgar

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

— Edmund Waller

#must #productions #should #take #vulgar

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#courage #firm #firm resolve #force #heroes

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#cease #fascination #long #looked #popular

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#exactly #extremely #good #holds #opinion

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#cannot #century #death #explain #facts

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#any #bulb #i #i can #light

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#anyone #average #average person #content #deliberately