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Beauty Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
- To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.
- Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.
- Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a…
- Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life…
- 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;…
- It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.
- Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call…
- A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is.…
- Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.
- One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.
- A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is.…
- 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.
- You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose…
- 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.
- There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less…
- 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…
- The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the…
- She is a peacock in everything but beauty!
- When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered, wrinkled, and loathsome…
- Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions."…
- But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.
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- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest… — David Attenborough
- Beauty has a lot to do with character. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put… — Kevyn Aucoin
- That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves,… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine