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
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings… — 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
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
Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. — 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
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
An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when… — 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
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
Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes — 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
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
Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom… — 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 Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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 Image
