Oscar Wilde Quotes on Beauty
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He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.
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The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
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The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest, as the lowest, form of criticism is a mode of autobiography.
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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 are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.
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Genius lasts longer than beauty.
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Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.
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Her eyes caught the melody and echoed it in radiance, then closed for a moment, as though to hide their secret. When they opened, the mist of a dream had passed across them.
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The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain.
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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.