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Oscar Wilde Quotes about Age

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With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

Age, Sometimes

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

Life, Truth, Age

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.819, GENERAL PRESS

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

Happiness, Age, Consciousness

Oscar Wilde (2016). “Miscellanies”, p.173, Oscar Wilde

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

Love, Age, World

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

Age, May, Ribbons

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.15, Wordsworth Editions

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

Age, Bishops, Eighteen

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.204, Courier Corporation

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

Art, Age, Max

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.43, Wordsworth Editions

I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

Misunderstood, Age, Dull

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.971, Wordsworth Editions

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

Age, Industrious

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.691, GENERAL PRESS

Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.

Age, Seriousness, Coming Of Age

Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.10, Oxford University Press, USA

Nature is always behind the age

Age, Behinds

Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.223, Oxford University Press

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

Art, Age, Ugly

Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.6, Oscar Wilde

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.

Past, Age, Tasks

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.

Age, Immigration, Genius

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

Mirrors, Age

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.810, GENERAL PRESS

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.

Love, Passion, Age

Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.46, Prestwick House Inc

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

Time, Age, Life Time

Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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

Giving, Luck, Age

The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

Age, Anachronism

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.201, Wordsworth Editions

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

Age, Ethics, Morality

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.50, Mondial

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

Art, Atheism, Age

Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1618, Delphi Classics

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Time, Men, Age

Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.145, Oxford Paperbacks

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