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Beautiful Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by…
- Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers…
- It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form…
- The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.
- In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.
- Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.
- Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered leaves of Autumn;…
- The curves of your lips rewrite history.
- A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
- A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a…
- The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.
- In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in…
- Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to…
- Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the correlation of the…
- The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.
- The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats
- What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons ...
- They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.
- The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.
- Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
- No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
- Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things…
- An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.
- Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have…
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- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold
- People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. — David Attenborough
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear. — John James Audubon
- I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of… — Saint Augustine
- Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for… — Marcus Aurelius
- Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot… — Paul Auster
- Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. — Diane Ackerman
- It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. — Diane Ackerman