Top 100 Quotes About Beauty Oscar Wilde
#1. Art had no moral responsibility. Art, he argued, should strive only to be a beautiful object entirely separate from its creator.
Oscar Wilde
#3. The time and situation is always right to express and experience the beauty of kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#4. I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful
Oscar Wilde
#5. To enjoy it again and again in those moments of joy and despair, I carry the beauty of your love in the hidden chamber of my heart.
Debasish Mridha
#6. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.
Oscar Wilde
#7. beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.
Oscar Wilde
#8. You came to me to learn the Pleasure of Life and the Pleasure of Art. Perhaps I am chosen to teach you something much more wonderful, the meaning of Sorrow and its beauty.
Oscar Wilde
#9. Beautiful untrue things are even more beautiful when they're true.
Marty Rubin
#10. If something cannot be done to check, or at least to modify, our monstrous worship of facts, art will become sterile and beauty will pass away from the land.
Oscar Wilde
#11. Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.
Oscar Wilde
#12. There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
Oscar Wilde
#13. If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
Oscar Wilde
#14. Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.
Oscar Wilde
#15. This woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night
Oscar Wilde
#16. Be a true romantic. Always ruminate about the true beauty of life.
Debasish Mridha
#17. Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
Oscar Wilde
#18. The more you know, the more you will be able to appreciate the beauty of life and your heart will desire to learn.
Debasish Mridha
#19. You don't have to be a rich person to have a great life. You have to be a person of value to enjoy the beauty of life.
Debasish Mridha
#20. Beauty ... is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
Oscar Wilde
#21. Darkness has its own beauty that you can only see with your inner light.
Debasish Mridha
#22. How beautiful a woman can be if kindness is her true beauty.
Debasish Mridha
#23. It has all the terrible beauty of a Greek tragedy, a tragedy in which I took a great part, but by which I have not been wounded.
Oscar Wilde
#24. The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.
Oscar Wilde
#25. In the centre of the room, clamped to an upright easel, stood the full-length portrait of a young man of extraordinary personal beauty, and in front of it, some little distance away, was sitting the artist himself, Basil Hallward, whose sudden disappearance some years
Oscar Wilde
#26. No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
Oscar Wilde
#27. You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost
Oscar Wilde
#28. A tree sings to us with her beauty and her love. It is our responsibility to listen to her music.
Debasish Mridha
#29. You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.
Oscar Wilde
#30. Of all people in the world the English have the least sense of the beauty of literature.
Oscar Wilde
#31. Your heart sees the beauty of life and your soul realizes the ecstasy of love.
Debasish Mridha
#32. And Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation.
Oscar Wilde
#33. The more you appreciate the things of beauty all around you, the more beautiful things will fill your life.
Debasish Mridha
#34. The secrets of art are best learned in secret, and that Beauty, like Wisdom, loves the lonely worshipper.
Oscar Wilde
#35. If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are no longer the actors, but the spectators of the play. Or rather we are both. We watch ourselves, and the mere wonder of the spectacle enthralls us. In
Oscar Wilde
#36. The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.
Oscar Wilde
#37. Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence.
Oscar Wilde
#39. The more you focus on the positive and the beauty around you, the more positive and peaceful your life will be.
Debasish Mridha
#40. There are beauties all around you. All you have to do is look to reveal them.
Debasish Mridha
#41. He grew more and more enamoured of his own beauty, more and more interested in the corruption of his own soul.
Oscar Wilde
#42. Yes; she is a peacock in everything but beauty," said Lord Henry,
Oscar Wilde
#44. 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.
Oscar Wilde
#45. At least,
I have not made my heart a heart of stone,
Nor starved my boyhood of is goodly feast,
Nor walked where beauty is a thing unknown.
Oscar Wilde
#46. But I loved Narcissus because as he lay on my banks and looked down at me, in the mirror of his eyes I saw ever my own beauty mirrored.
Oscar Wilde
#47. We travel not just to see the beauty of new places but to see our own beauty in a new environment.
Debasish Mridha
#48. Some people come into your life like a flower. She fills your heart with love, amuses your mind with her beauty, and leaves you with enduring joy because she once touched your life.
Debasish Mridha
#49. 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
#51. We are born to unfold the beauty of life and to adorn the universe with unique thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#52. That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a positive necessity of life if we are to live as nature meant us to, that is to say unless we are content to be less than men.
Oscar Wilde
#53. 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
#54. Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flamelike as theirs;
Oscar Wilde
#56. Always be excited about your life. Try to find and create beauty in and around you. Give away your love and smiles as much as you can. Be content and happy with what you have.
Debasish Mridha
#57. It's beauty that captures your attention; personality that captures your heart..
Oscar Wilde
#58. When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage." and the portrait "in all the wonders of his exquisite youth and beauty." p 349
Oscar Wilde
#59. True wealth does not glitter. It is revealed by the beauty of a life well lived.
Debasish Mridha
#60. Measure your life not by its longevity but by the differences you have made with your creativity and beauty.
Debasish Mridha
#62. Happiness is the best makeup to emphasize your inner beauty and outer glow.
Debasish Mridha
#63. There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.
Oscar Wilde
#64. Even in silence and darkness, the heart can see more beauty than the eyes.
Debasish Mridha
#65. Moral grounds are always the last refuge of people who have no sense of beauty.
Oscar Wilde
#66. Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality.
Oscar Wilde
#67. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory of your past will make more bitter than defeats.
Oscar Wilde
#68. When I started to focus on all the beauty all around me, my whole world became amazingly beautiful.
Debasish Mridha
#69. You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas
Oscar Wilde
#70. There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.
Oscar Wilde
#71. The sense of his own beauty came on him like a revelation. He had never felt it before. Basil Hallward's compliments
Oscar Wilde
#72. Even if you walk through a beautiful garden, you will not be able to find the beauty if your heart is not ready to bloom.
Debasish Mridha
#73. When you look at a flower with an appreciative heart and get lost in the magical beauty, you really get a vacation from the everyday stressful life.
Debasish Mridha
#74. That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance.
Oscar Wilde
#75. A smile is the flower that grows in the garden of the heart to beautify and attract the butterflies of life.
Debasish Mridha
#76. It was his beauty that had ruined him, his beauty and the youth that he had prayed for. But for those two things, his life might have been free from stain. His beauty had been to him but a mask, his youth but a mockery.
Oscar Wilde
#77. Age can't dull the beauty of life that reflects and radiates from within.
Debasish Mridha
#78. It had taught him to love his own beauty. Would it teach him to loathe his own soul?
Oscar Wilde
#79. There is nothing sane about the worship of beauty. It is too splendid to be sane. Those of whose lives it forms the dominant note will always seem to the world to be pure visionaries.
Oscar Wilde
#80. Humanity reveals her inner beauty through the interplay of gratitude, love, and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#81. Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.
Oscar Wilde
#82. People say sometimes that beauty is only superficial. That may be so, but at least it is not so superficial as thought is. It
Oscar Wilde
#83. Your eyes reflect the beauty which no one can see except that special person whose soul is lost in your love.
Debasish Mridha
#84. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders ... It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.
Oscar Wilde
#85. She is a peacock in everything but beauty!
Oscar Wilde
#86. Beauty is all around you. To find it, you need love filled eyes to search for it.
Debasish Mridha
#87. But the picture? What was he to say of that? It held the secret of his life, and told his story. It had taught him to love his own beauty. Would it teach him to loathe his own soul? Would he ever look at it again?
Oscar Wilde
#88. 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
#89. Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
Oscar Wilde
#90. What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat away its grace. they would defile it, and make it shameful. And yet the thing would still live on. It would be always alive. (Dorian Gray regarding his portrait)
Oscar Wilde
#91. Sweet rains fall on just and unjust alike
Oscar Wilde
#92. Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.
Oscar Wilde
#93. Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
Oscar Wilde
#94. A loving heart blooms like a flower that attracts all the beauty and light of life.
Debasish Mridha
#95. Your outer charm and beauty attract me. Your inner beauty of kindness and a caring heart seduces me.
Debasish Mridha
#96. Try your best, before any rest. Life gets its beauty from the best.
Debasish Mridha
#97. I remembered what you had said to me on that wonderful evening we first dined together, about the search for beauty being the real secret of life ...
Oscar Wilde
#98. All those who come in contact with his [Christ's] personality, even though they may neither bow to his altar or kneel before his priest, in some way find that the ugliness of their sin is taken away and the beauty of their sorrow is revealed to them.
Oscar Wilde
#99. If you cannot find and appreciate the beauty of your own thoughts, how can others appreciate you?
Debasish Mridha
#100. I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.
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