Oscar Wilde Quotes

Beauty, my dear Sir, is not so much a quality of the object beheld, as an effect in him who beholds it. If our sight were longer or shorter, or if our constitution were different, what now appears beautiful to us would seem misshapen, and what we now think misshapen we should regard as beautiful. The most beautiful hand seen through the microscope will appear horrible. Some things are beautiful at a distance, but ugly near;

There's never an ugly bubble.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Beauty is only about relationships. Nothing is beautiful on its own.

Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking.

Indeed, there is no such thing as an altogether ugly woman — or altogether beautiful.

I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.

Venus de Milo. To a child she is ugly. When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards, incomplete, she is beautiful.

Ugliness is a point of view; an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.

Beauty is that little something that fills the whole world, and is contained neither in a single straight nose, a long eyelash, nor a blue mountain. Some see it in a leg of mutton, others in a compound fracture; and to expect others to accept one's own definition of it is as absurd as to expect all humanity to use the same toilet-brush.

I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.

The knowable world is incomplete if seen from any one point of view, incoherent if seen from all points of view at once, and empty if seen from nowhere in particular.

The beauty about history is that it's open to perception.

Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder's frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we can never know more than one side, one small aspect of a mountain.

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.

I'm surrounded by young and beautiful people. I hate looking at ugliness.

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness.

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly.

Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer.

What kind of truth is this which is true on one side of a mountain and false on the other?

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.