Age Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image “A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age Bishops Eighteen Eighty
“Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“But, indeed, dull, dreary adversity was now in store for him; and adversity, come it at eighteen or eighty, is the true old age… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“I once heard someone say, "I shall die very young. How young? I don’t know. Maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
“I do not find that I grow any older. Being arrived at seventy, and considering that by traveling further in the same road I… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“He was forty-eight — an age at which permanence of habits begins to be predictable.” — James Hilton Copy Share Image
“When I was nineteen, I told a thirty- year-old man what a fool I had been when I was seventeen. 'We were always,' he… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
“Guillam was exhausted. Forty is a difficult age at which to stay awake, he decided. At twenty or at sixty the body knows what… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“Madeleine L’Engle said, “the great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.” 58 I think the… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“Some people live more in twenty year than others do in eighty. It's not the time that matters, it's the person. - The Doctor” — Stephen Greenhorn 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
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, when I was 15, I would go to work with people and they would tell me my lyrics were… — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. — Marion Jones Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I am just enjoying the dream of being Milan coach at the age of 40. — Gennaro Gattuso Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image