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Beauty Quotes by Oscar Wilde

126 Beauty quotes by Oscar Wilde

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A bright sunrise can make you feel that beauty never fades, even as years pass. The quotes explain that beauty is something time cannot hurt, that it catches our eye while personality wins the heart, and that seeing beauty changes how we understand the world. They also note that finding ugly meanings can corrupt.

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What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons ...

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“Yes; she is a peacock in everything but beauty,”

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I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.

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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

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One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.

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There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.

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You are Beautiful when you are happy

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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.

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To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

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“What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity.”

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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

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The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.

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The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.

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Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

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“Most women are so artificial that they have no sense of Art. Most men are so natural that they have no sense…

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Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes.

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I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things…

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You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but…

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You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see…

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“It is rarely in the world's history that its ideal has been one of joy and beauty. The worship of pain has…

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Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense…

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Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great…

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“real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any…

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“At least, I have not made my heart a heart of stone, Nor starved my boyhood of is goodly feast, Nor walked…

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“To spiritualize one's age—that is something worth doing. If this girl can give a soul to those who have lived without one,…

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“I am less to you than your ivory Hermes or your silver Faun. You will like them always. How long will you…

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“In the centre of the room, clamped to an upright easel, stood the full-length portrait of a young man of extraordinary personal…

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“Cyril: surely you would acknowledge that art expresses the temper of its age, the spirit of its time, the moral and social…

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“there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to…

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“Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises…

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“Why, my dear Basil, he is a Narcissus, and you—well, of course you have an intellectual expression, and all that. But beauty,…

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“Nobody is worthy to be loved. The fact that God loves man shows us that in the divine order of ideal things…

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“I fancy that the true explanation is this: It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic…

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“I remember talking once on this subject to one of the most beautiful personalities I have ever known: a woman, whose sympathy…

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“We try to improve the conditions of the race by means of good air, free sunlight, wholesome water, and hideous bare buildings…

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It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for…

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“From the corner of the divan of Persian saddle-bags on which he was lying, smoking, as was his custom, innumerable cigarettes, Lord…

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“The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the…

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“No, you don't feel it now. Some day, when you are old and wrinkled and ugly, when thought has seared your forehead…

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“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he…

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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

“Alles Populäre ist falsch.”

“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are…

To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance

“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.”

Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last…

Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a…