Voyez comme il brûle le pavé—See how fast he drives (lit., burns the pavement). Fr. Pr.
Vulgar opulence fills the street from wall to wall of the houses, and begrudges all but the gutter to everybody whose sleeve is a little worn at the elbows. John Weiss.
Vulgarity consists in a deadness of the heart and body, resulting from prolonged, and especially from inherited conditions of "degeneracy," or literally "unracing;" gentlemanliness being another name for intense humanity. And vulgarity shows itself in dulness of heart, not in rage or cruelty, but in inability to feel or conceive noble character or emotion. Dulness of bodily sense and general stupidity are its material manifestations. Ruskin.
Vulgarity in manners defiles fine garments 10 more than mud. Plautus.
Vulgus ex veritate pauca, ex opinione multa, æstimat—The masses judge of few things by the truth, of most things by opinion. Cic.
Vultus est index animi—The countenance is the index of the mind. Pr.
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Wachsamkeit ist die Tugend des Lasters—Vigilance is the virtue of vice. C. J. Weber.
Waft yourselves, yearning souls, upon the stars; / Sow yourselves on the wandering winds of space; / Watch patient all your days, if your eyes take / Some dim, cold ray of knowledge. The dull world / Hath need of you—the purblind, slothful world! Lewis Morris.
Wage du zu irren und zu träumen: / Hoher 15 Sinn liegt oft im kind'schen Spiel—Dare to err and to dream; a deep meaning often lies in the play of a child. Schiller.