Oscar Wilde Age Quotations

The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

One should never make one's debut in a scandal. One should reserve that to give interest to one's old age.

One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she'll tell anything.

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young

How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June. . . . If it was only the other way! If it was I who were to be always young, and the picture that were to grow old! For this--for this--I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give!

She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.

Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

Wisdom comes with winters

A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

Nature is always behind the age

Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.

In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.

The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.

A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.

He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.

When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.

The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.