#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

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#everything #false #making #materialism #truth

It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially. ↗

— Lauren Bacall

#anything #commercially #inappropriate #life #private

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity. ↗

— Henry Beston

#away #banishment #depth #emotion #experience

I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit. ↗

— Lucien Bouchard

#deceit #expression #i #known #more