“Because now you are young and beautiful and the whole world loves you. But, some day, you will be old and wrinkled… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I tought how tragic it would be if you were wasted. For there is such a little time that your youth will… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“His night had been untroubled by any images of pleasure or of pain. But youth smiles without any reason. It is one… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“To win back my youth, there is nothing I wouldn't do - except take exercise, get up early, or be a useful… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Beauty is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight,or springtime, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I wish you would tell me your secret. To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Youth! There is nothing like it. It’s absurd to talk of the ignorance of youth. The only people whose opinions I listen… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything, and when they grow older, they know it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Because you have the most marvellous youth, and youth is the one thing worth having." "I don't feel that, Lord Henry." "No,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
