Oscar Wilde Quotes About Birthdays

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Growing Up

  "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

• To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

  Oscar Wilde

  Birthday, Exercise, Up Early

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 19 (1891)

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday, Truth

  'A Woman of No Importance' (1893) act 1

• Those whom the gods love grow young.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Birthday, Time

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.167, Wordsworth Editions

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Birthday, Friends

  1895 Lady Bracknell. The Importance of Being Earnest, act 3.

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Birthday, Witty, Time

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1389, GENERAL PRESS

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