Looks Quotes by Oscar Wilde

I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual.

— Oscar Wilde

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

— Oscar Wilde

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

— Oscar Wilde

To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.

— Oscar Wilde

They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance

— Oscar Wilde

“Women have no appreciation of good looks—at least, good women have not.”

— Oscar Wilde

That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.

— Oscar Wilde

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.

— Oscar Wilde

London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

— Oscar Wilde

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

— Oscar Wilde

Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

— Oscar Wilde

“Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a…

— Oscar Wilde

I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like…

— Oscar Wilde

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to…

— Oscar Wilde

I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I…

— Oscar Wilde

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man…

— Oscar Wilde

Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series…

— Oscar Wilde

Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long…

— Oscar Wilde

As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with…

— Oscar Wilde

You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name…

— Oscar Wilde

She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in…

— Oscar Wilde

Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I? Oh, no. You see, it is simply…

— Oscar Wilde

Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's…

— Oscar Wilde

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one…

— Oscar Wilde

Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some…

— Oscar Wilde

The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the…

— 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

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make,…

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

— Oscar Wilde

Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.

— Oscar Wilde

Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

— Oscar Wilde

To look wise is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

— Oscar Wilde

Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the…

— Oscar Wilde

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public…

— Oscar Wilde

He is some brainless, beautiful creature, who should always be here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and…

— Oscar Wilde

LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything.…

— Oscar Wilde

I find I have, and a heart doesn’t suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn’t go with modern dress. It makes one look…

— Oscar Wilde

The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply…

— Oscar Wilde

Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks…

— Oscar Wilde