Oscar Wilde Quote

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.

Lao-Tzu

• Knowledge
• World
• Evil

The good is the beautiful.

Plato

When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.

Mae West

The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

Victor Hugo

Better is the enemy of good.

Voltaire

How goodness heightens beauty!

Milan Kundera

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Dreams
• Thinking

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

Victor Hugo

• Beauty

I don't think I'd have been as good as Bruce was. He was a better JFK than I would have been.

Kevin Costner

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Leo Tolstoy

• Beauty

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

Leo Tolstoy

• Beauty

Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.

Laetitia Casta

• Beauty

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Hermann Hesse

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

William Shakespeare

• Love

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

Oscar Wilde

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

Stephen King

'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.'

Menander

For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.

Hesiod

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

Aeschylus

Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me.

Gwyneth Paltrow