Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces . — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, and sail 'round the high-pooped galleys... Dragons will wander about the waste places,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. It was not until I had seen… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
