Time Quotes by Oscar Wilde

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

— Oscar Wilde

Time is waste of money.

— Oscar Wilde

Time is a waste of money.

— Oscar Wilde

Punctuality is the thief of time

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— 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 next day he did not leave the house, and, indeed, spent most of the time in his own room, sick with…

— Oscar Wilde

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past…

— Oscar Wilde

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time…

— Oscar Wilde

People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing…

— Oscar Wilde

Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.

— Oscar Wilde

“But it was to teach man to concentrate himself upon the moments of a life that is itself but a moment.”

— Oscar Wilde

“One can realise a thing in a single moment, but one loses it in the long hours that follow with leaden feet. ”

— Oscar Wilde

The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the…

— Oscar Wilde

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return.…

— Oscar Wilde

“There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers…

— Oscar Wilde

I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in…

— Oscar Wilde

“There was evidently no time to be lost, so, hastily adopting the Fourth dimension of Space as a means of escape, he…

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— Oscar Wilde

“How English you are, Basil! That is the second time you have made that observation. If one puts forward an idea to…

— Oscar Wilde

“The very violence of a revolution may make the public grand and splendid for a moment. It was a fatal day when…

— 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

A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.

— Oscar Wilde

If you want to be witty, say what you think at all times

— Oscar Wilde

Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.

— Oscar Wilde

Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes

— Oscar Wilde