Oscar Wilde Quotes About Beauty

• Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beauty, Fashion, Makeup

• 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

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Beauty, Heart, Personality

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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