Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell…

Quote by Oscar Wilde

Topics: Beauty Quotes

I can resist everything except temptation.

I can resist everything except temptation.

Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground

Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground

I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is...

I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is...

I can believe anything as long as it is incredible

I can believe anything as long as it is incredible

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in...

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in...

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Nature is always behind the age.

Nature is always behind the age.

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one...

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one...

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its...

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its...

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation...

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation...

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable...

Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable...

I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality...

I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality...

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot...

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot...

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not...

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not...

In America, the young are always ready to give to those older than themselves the...

In America, the young are always ready to give to those older than themselves the...

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk...

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk...

The man who takes time to explain his mistakes has little time left for anything...

The man who takes time to explain his mistakes has little time left for anything...