Time Quotes by Oscar Wilde

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

— Oscar Wilde

Time is waste of money.

— Oscar Wilde

Punctuality is the thief of time

— Oscar Wilde

Time is a waste of money.

— Oscar Wilde

There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.

— Oscar Wilde

Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

“Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is”

— Oscar Wilde

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

“The one charm about the past is that it is the past.”

— Oscar Wilde

Until this moment, I never understood how hard it was to lose something you never had.

— Oscar Wilde

“You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we…

— Oscar Wilde

Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose. DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more…

— Oscar Wilde

I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything…

— Oscar Wilde

I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a…

— Oscar Wilde

“Intellect is in itself an exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes…

— Oscar Wilde

To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of…

— Oscar Wilde

If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself - a rare type in our time…

— Oscar Wilde

“second time you have made that observation. If one puts forward an idea to a true Englishman--always a rash thing to do--he…

— Oscar Wilde

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful…

— Oscar Wilde

“Do you really think ... that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that…

— Oscar Wilde

When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will…

— Oscar Wilde

“The one charm of the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. They…

— Oscar Wilde

The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal.…

— Oscar Wilde

It gets rough being alone but just as being alone had started from some place, one will not be alone for the…

— Oscar Wilde

There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life,…

— Oscar Wilde

“When I say that I am convinced of these things I speak with too much pride. Far off, like a perfect pearl,…

— Oscar Wilde

“There was a stifled groan and the horrible sound of some one choking with blood. Three times the outstretched arms shot up…

— Oscar Wilde

“Ah! Lord Henry, I wish you would tell me how to become young again." He thought for a moment. "Can you remember…

— Oscar Wilde

“Cyril: surely you would acknowledge that art expresses the temper of its age, the spirit of its time, the moral and social…

— Oscar Wilde

“I tought how tragic it would be if you were wasted. For there is such a little time that your youth will…

— Oscar Wilde

The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and…

— Oscar Wilde

There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that…

— Oscar Wilde

The one charm of the past is that it is the past.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.

— Oscar Wilde