Oscar Wilde Age Quotations

The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

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

Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.

She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.

The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.

He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.

The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.

A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.

The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.

In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.

Nature is always behind the age

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

Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

Wisdom comes with winters

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.