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Beautiful Quotes by Oscar Wilde

58 Beautiful quotes by Oscar Wilde

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Beauty can outlast time, says Oscar Wilde. He points out that seeing something as beautiful can lift our spirits, while seeing ugliness in beauty can corrupt us. He also notes that even ordinary things like a kitchen or a machine can become wonderful when we look at them with fresh eyes.

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

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

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I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.

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The curves of your lips rewrite history.

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The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.

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They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.

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“It is so beautiful that I am sure it has a long Latin name.”

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The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

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In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as…

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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

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

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Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.

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The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats

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

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It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .

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Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes

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I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke…

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In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips…

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Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred…

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“The visible aspect of modern life disturbs him not; rather is it for him to render eternal all that is beautiful in…

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Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach…

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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to…

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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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Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other…

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Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, and sail 'round the high-pooped galleys... Dragons will wander about the waste places,…

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In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of…

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A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime.…

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Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that…

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Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to…

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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings…

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She has form," he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove - "that cannot be denied to her; but…

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Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run…

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You are Beautiful when you are happy

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

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She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

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An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

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We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.

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There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

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Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

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Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

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The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others

Who, being loved, is poor?

“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life…

Anybody can be good in the country

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…