Age Quotes by Oscar Wilde

Nature is always behind the age

— Oscar Wilde

Wisdom comes with winters

— Oscar Wilde

Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.

— Oscar Wilde

“But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

“The ages live in history through their anachronisms.”

— Oscar Wilde

An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young

— Oscar Wilde

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one…

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

35 is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own…

— Oscar Wilde

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own…

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added…

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the…

— Oscar Wilde

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when…

— Oscar Wilde

The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.…

— Oscar Wilde

Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age…

— Oscar Wilde

I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously,…

— Oscar Wilde

He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of…

— Oscar Wilde

She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in…

— Oscar Wilde

Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run…

— Oscar Wilde

There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some…

— Oscar Wilde

What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for…

— Oscar Wilde

“People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self.…

— Oscar Wilde

The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please…

— Oscar Wilde

In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor.…

— Oscar Wilde

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

— Oscar Wilde

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde