9 Oscar Wilde Quotes on Beauty

Oscar Wilde quotes on beauty

19. He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

43. The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

44. 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.

45. 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.

65. Genius lasts longer than beauty.

71. Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

87. 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.

147. 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.

172. 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.