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Age Quotes by Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde says pleasure is the only thing one should live for, and that happiness never ages. He jokes that a scandal should be saved for an old‑age entrance, not a debut. He also argues that an artist should make beautiful work without pouring personal life into it.

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Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.

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Nature is always behind the age

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Wisdom comes with winters

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

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It is absurd to say that the age of miracles is past. It has not yet begun.

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We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.

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The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.

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It is personalities not principles that move the age.

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

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

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

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

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

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We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water…

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

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The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.”

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

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

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

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

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

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Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

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