Oscar Wilde Quotes

Lady Dumbleton is an instance in point. To my own knowledge, she has been thirty-five ever since she arrived at the age of forty, which was many years ago now.

I am not young enough to know everything.

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

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

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life’s tragedy.

An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

Men become old, but they never become good.

In America, the young are always ready to give to those older than themselves the full benefit of their inexperience.

Don’t give a woman advice: one should never give a woman anything she can’t wear in the evening.

The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.