Oscar Wilde Quotes About Ugliness
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I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.
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Industry is the root of all ugliness.
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Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.
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If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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