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Oscar Wilde Quotes about Time

All Oscar Wilde Quotes Achievement Acting Affection Age Aging Ambition Anger Appearance Appreciation Arguing Art Atheism Atmosphere Attitude Authority Beauty Beer Being Happy Being Real Being Single Being Yourself Belief Betrayal Blame Break Up Business Censorship Change Chaos Character Charity Children Christ Church College Common Sense Community Conformity Conscience Consciousness Cooking Country Courage Creativity Crime Criticism Critics Culture Curiosity Death Deception Defeat Desire Destiny Dignity Disappointment Doubt Drama Drinking Drunkenness Duty Dying Earth Eating Education Environment Ethics Evil Exercise Failing Failure Faith Falling In Love Family Fashion Fear Feelings Fidelity Fighting Flirting Food Forgiveness Friends Friendship Funny Future Genius Giving Gold Goodness Gossip Graduation Gratitude Greatness Greek Grief Growing Old Growth Happiness Hard Work Harmony Hate Hatred Heart Heartbreak Heaven Hell Hilarious History Home Honesty Hope Horror House Human Nature Humanity Hurt Husband Hypocrisy Ignorance Imagination Imitation Impulse Individualism Individuality Innocence Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Integrity Intelligence Irony Journalism Joy Judgement Judging Kissing Knowledge Language Laughter Leadership Learning Liars Liberty Life Life And Love Listening Literature Live Life Logic Loss Lost Love Love Love Life Luck Lust Lying Madness Mankind Manners Marriage Mask Maturity Mediocrity Memories Moderation Money Moon Morality Morning Motivational Mourning Music Nature Oblivion Opportunity Optimism Pain Passion Past Peace Perception Perfection Personality Perspective Pessimism Philosophy Pleasure Poetry Positive Poverty Prayer Prejudice Progress Purpose Quality Rage Reading Reality Rebellion Regret Rejection Religion Reputation Respect Risk Romance Romantic Love Romanticism Running Sacrifice Sad Sadness Sarcasm School Science Selfishness Silence Simplicity Sin Sincerity Sleep Society Solitude Sorrow Soul Spring Struggle Study Stupidity Style Success Suffering Summer Survival Sympathy Talent Tea Teaching Temptation Terror Theatre Time quotes Tragedy Train Travel Truth Ugliness Understanding Utopia Values Virtue Vision Waiting Wall War Water Weakness Wife Wine Winning Winter Wisdom Wit Work Worship Writing Yoga Youth

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Graduation, Education, Time

Epigrams: Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young Sebastian Melmoth

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Love, Birthday, Time

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.167, Wordsworth Editions

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Time, 4th Of July, America

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1024, GENERAL PRESS

Time is a waste of money.

Time, Money, Waste

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

Time, Humor, Tragedy

In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.

Baby, Time, Men

Oscar Wilde (2014). “Wilde Complete Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest; A Woman of No Importance; Salome; The Duchess of Padua; Vera, or the Nihilists; A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane”, p.557, Bloomsbury Publishing

He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

Time, Principles, Thieves

"The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories".

When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

Time, People, Purpose

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.230, Oxford Paperbacks

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Family, Witty, Time

'A Woman of No Importance' (1893) act 2

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

Time, Past, People

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.27, Wordsworth Editions

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

Time, Maturity, People

Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.75, Penguin

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Birthday, Witty, Time

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1389, GENERAL PRESS

Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.

Time, Kings, People

Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.142, Penguin

Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.

Time, Misunderstood

Oscar Wilde (2016). “Miscellanies”, p.132, Oscar Wilde

If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

Time, Men, Should Have

Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.94, Oscar Wilde

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

Punctuality is the thief of time

Time, Work, Lying

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.222, Wordsworth Editions

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

Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

Time, Mistake, Parent

Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.441, Oxford University Press

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