Oscar Wilde Quotes About Ugliness

• Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Fashion

  Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more”, Eighty Pence Books

• I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Cities, America, Criminals

  Oscar Wilde (2010). “Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews”, p.70, University of Illinois 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

• If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

  Oscar Wilde

  Victory, Defeat, Knows

  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.5, Oxford University Press on Demand

• Industry is the root of all ugliness.

  Oscar Wilde

  Roots, Industry, Ugliness

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.56, Courier Corporation

• Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Fashion, Art

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