Beauty Quotes by Oscar Wilde

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

— Oscar Wilde

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.

— Oscar Wilde

One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

“A genius in the daytime and a beauty at night!”

— Oscar Wilde

She is a peacock in everything but beauty!

— Oscar Wilde

I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

“It is better to be beautiful then to be good, but it is better to be good then to be ugly.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

“Moral grounds are always the last refuge of people who have no sense of beauty.”

— Oscar Wilde

“It's beauty that captures your attention; personality that captures your heart..”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

Simplicity is Beauty and Beauty is simplicity, nothing more, nothing less.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot…

— Oscar Wilde

Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and…

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

“you met me, flattered me, and taught me to be vain of my good looks. One day you introduced me to a…

— Oscar Wilde

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And,…

— Oscar Wilde

“I am athirst for thy beauty; I am hungry for thy body; and neither wine nor apples can appease my desire. What…

— Oscar Wilde

“How good to see the moon! She is like a little piece of money. You would think she was a little silver…

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either…

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

“All these appeals to art to set herself more in harmony with modern progress and civilisation, and to make herself the mouthpiece…

— Oscar Wilde

“The walls were hung with rich tapestries representing the Triumph of Beauty. A large press, inlaid with agate and lapis-lazuli, filled one…

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

“Beauty is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight,or springtime, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver…

— Oscar Wilde