"I hate them for it," cried Hallward. "An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty. Some day I will show the world what is it; and for that the world shall never see my portrait of Dorian Gray.” 

“People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.” 

“She is a peacock in everything but beauty!” 

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.” 

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.” 

I should be a postage stamp, because that's the only way I'll ever get licked. I'm beautiful. I'm fast. I'm so mean I make medicine sick. I can't possibly be beat.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.

To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity.

In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Beauty rests on necessities. The line of beauty is the result of perfect economy.

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end. […] It is the most enduring quality, and the most ascending quality.

On stars: Every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength.

There are many beauties; as, of general nature, of the human face and form, of manners, of brain, or method, moral beauty, or beauty of the soul.

To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again. 

Do not waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue. 

Beauty without expression is boring.

Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.