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Youth Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
- The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
- The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.
- In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
- Those whom the gods love grow young.
- When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered, wrinkled, and loathsome…
- To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
- The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
- To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.
- It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with…
- Youth is the only thing worth having.
- But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot.…
- There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and…
- Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure,…
- Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.
- The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.
- The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to…
- 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 Lord of Life.…
- Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber
- Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything, and when they grow older, they know it.
- An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young
- To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable
More Youth Quotes
- Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. — Aristotle
- Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
- What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood
- Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming… — Jane Austen
- The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. — Richard Bach
- Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and… — Francis Bacon
- Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than… — Francis Bacon
- For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially… — Honore de Balzac
- If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and… — Honore de Balzac