“Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.”
– Oscar Wilde
“And Beauty is a form of Genius – is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation.”
Oscar Wilde – The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“Sweet rains fall on just and unjust alike”
Oscar Wilde – De Profundis
“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 – The Importance Of Being Earnest
“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.”
Oscar Wilde – The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“She is a peacock in everything but beauty!”
Oscar Wilde – The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied”
Oscar Wilde – The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“Moral grounds are always the last refuge of people who have no sense of beauty.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Inteligence lives longer than beauty.”
Oscar Wilde – The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“A flower blossoms for its own joy.”
– Oscar Wilde
“But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.”
Oscar Wilde – The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.”
Oscar Wilde – The Picture Of Dorian Gray