Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

Genius lasts longer than beauty

I hope you hair curls naturally, does it? Yes, darling, with a little help from others.

And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.

There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established

The noble-minded encourage what is beautiful in people and discourage what is ugly in them. Little people do just the opposite.

Beauty makes promises that beauty cant keep.

He had a tattoo of a bird on his neck done by someone with an ill-formed notion of their appearance.