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Oscar Wilde Quotes about Beauty

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It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.

It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.

Oscar Wilde
Beauty, Heart, Personality

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

Oscar Wilde
Beauty, Fashion, Makeup

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.

Oscar Wilde
Beauty, Creeds, Harm
Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1594, Delphi Classics

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 those who strive to make something useful.

Oscar Wilde
Beauty, Beautiful, Ugly Things

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

Oscar Wilde
Funny, Beauty, Beautiful
'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (1891) ch. 17

What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons.

Oscar Wilde
Beauty, Beautiful, Joy
Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.772, GENERAL PRESS

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; but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity.

Oscar Wilde
Beauty, Beautiful, Christian
Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1594, Delphi Classics

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 distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.

Oscar Wilde
Beauty, Real, Sunset
Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.233, Oxford University Press

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 being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Oscar Wilde
Beauty, Art, Prejudice
Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.702, GENERAL PRESS

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

Oscar Wilde
Beauty, Beautiful, Mean
Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.11, Prestwick House Inc

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

Oscar Wilde
Beauty, Beautiful, Art
Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.758, GENERAL PRESS

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

Oscar Wilde
Funny, Beauty, Beautiful
Oscar Wilde (2015). “Essays and Lectures: Top Essays”, p.91, 谷月社

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

Oscar Wilde
Beauty, Important, Engagement
Oscar Wilde (1994). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.30, Heinemann

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 classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.

Oscar Wilde
Beauty, Country, Art
Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1653, Delphi Classics

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