Oscar Wilde Quotes on Age (17 Quotes)

Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think. A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say when he was a boy of eighteen, and as a natural consequence he always looks absolutely delightful.

It is personalities not principles that move the age.

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

Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.

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

One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell anything.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

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

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

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

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

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

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

I was a man who stood in symbolic relations to the art and culture of my age.... The gods had given me almost everything. I had genius, a distinguished name, high social position, brilliancy, intellectual daring I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art I altered the minds of men and the colour of things there was nothing I said or did that did not make people wonder.... I treated Art as the supreme reality, and life as a mere mode of fiction I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.

Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

If they have not opened the eyes of the blind, they have at least given great encouragement to the short-sighted, and while their leaders may have all the inexperience of old age, their young men are far too wise to be ever sensible.