Oscar Wilde Aging Quotations

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!

More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.

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