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Youth Quotes by Oscar Wilde

42 Youth quotes by Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde paints youth as a bright, fleeting spark that the world adores, but he also warns that age brings wrinkles and a loss of attention. He jokes that people would do anything to feel young again, except the hard work of exercise, early mornings, or respectability.

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“The youth of America is their oldest tradition.”

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

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When I was young, I was no one. Now, I'm worldwilde.

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Youth is the only thing worth having.

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I'm not nearly young enough to know everything

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

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With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

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To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.

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“If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.”

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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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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber

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“To win back my youth, there is nothing I wouldn't do - except take exercise, get up early, or be a useful…

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Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.

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“What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts.”

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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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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

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“We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite…

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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…

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“I wish you would tell me your secret. To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take…

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“There was something in his face that made one trust him at once. All the candour of youth was there, as well…

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When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered,…

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“Because you have the most marvellous youth, and youth is the one thing worth having." "I don't feel that, Lord Henry." "No,…

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Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve…

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

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“Youth! There is nothing like it. It’s absurd to talk of the ignorance of youth. The only people whose opinions I listen…

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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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It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray,…

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But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail,…

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“Because now you are young and beautiful and the whole world loves you. But, some day, you will be old and wrinkled…

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

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“Beauty is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight,or springtime, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver…

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

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An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young

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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

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The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

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

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The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.

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

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The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.

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Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

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