 For beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered leaves of autumn; but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity.  Miscellanies - 268. oldalszerző: Oscar Wilde - 1908 - 343 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Oscar Wilde - 1905 - 236 oldal
...from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's faults — ah! there is the sting of life. Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1907 - 302 oldal
...all great civilisations; it is what makes the life of each citizen a sacrament and not a speculation. For beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1907 - 276 oldal
...civilisations ; it_ is what makes JJhe_life of each citizen a sacrament and not aspeculatipn. For T>eauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1909 - 386 oldal
...all great civilisations; it is what makes the life of each citizen a sacrament and not a speculation. For beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1909 - 256 oldal
...all great civilisations; it is what makes the life of each citizen a sacrament and not a speculation. For beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1910 - 262 oldal
...all great civilisations; it is what makes the life of each citizen a sacrament and not a speculation. For beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1916 - 726 oldal
...with their eyes, if they ever love at all. Questions are never indiscreet; answers sometimes are. 647 Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1909 - 332 oldal
...love with their eyes, if they ever love at all. Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion. Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one 77 another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all... | |
 | Eric Warner, Graham Hough - 1983 - 340 oldal
...you need will be added to you. This devotion to beauty and to the creation of beautiful things 133 is the test of all great civilised nations. Philosophy...for all seasons and a possession for all eternity. [. . .] We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life... | |
 | Elizabeth Prettejohn - 1999 - 292 oldal
...that is best which is most virtuous.'25 Wilde is more flowery, but he too uses three basic categories: 'Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow...is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity.'26 In each of these passages, art's independence is defined relative to non-artistic alternatives... | |
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