Oscar Wilde Quotes About Harmony

• To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

  Oscar Wilde

  Harmony, Be Good, Discord

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.112, Courier Corporation

• Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

  Oscar Wilde

  Nature, Men, Tests

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Epigrams”, p.94, BoD – Books on Demand

• 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.

  Oscar Wilde

  Real, Exaggeration Is, Expression

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.170, Oxford University Press on Demand

• 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. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think.

  Oscar Wilde

  Real, Successful, Thinking

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.7, Diversion Books

• To be good is to be in harmony with one's self.

  Oscar Wilde

  Self, Harmony, Be Good

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.69, Xist Publishing

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