Oscar Wilde Quotes About Time

• Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Beautiful, Death

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.205, Wordsworth Editions

• Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

  Oscar Wilde

  Graduation, Education, Time

  Epigrams: Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young Sebastian Melmoth

• Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Family, Witty, Time

  'A Woman of No Importance' (1893) act 2

• In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

  Oscar Wilde

  Time, 4th Of July, America

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1024, GENERAL PRESS

• Time is a waste of money.

  Oscar Wilde

  Time, Money, Waste

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Time, Humor, Tragedy

• 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

• One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

  Oscar Wilde

  Time, Past, People

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.27, Wordsworth Editions

• My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Time, Maturity, People

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.75, Penguin

• Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.

  Oscar Wilde

  Time, Kings, People

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.142, Penguin

• When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

  Oscar Wilde

  Time, People, Purpose

  Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.230, Oxford Paperbacks

• He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

  Oscar Wilde

  Time, Principles, Thieves

  "The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories".

• I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

  Oscar Wilde

  Time, Men, Age

  Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.145, Oxford Paperbacks

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Time, Age, Life Time

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

• Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

  Oscar Wilde

  Time, Mistake, Parent

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.441, Oxford University Press

• Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.

  Oscar Wilde

  Time, Misunderstood

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Miscellanies”, p.132, Oscar Wilde

• If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Time, Men, Should Have

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.94, Oscar Wilde

• Punctuality is the thief of time

  Oscar Wilde

  Time, Work, Lying

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.222, Wordsworth Editions

• Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Anniversary, Sweet

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “A Critic in Pall Mall”, p.227, Oscar Wilde

• In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.

  Oscar Wilde

  Baby, Time, Men

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Wilde Complete Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest; A Woman of No Importance; Salome; The Duchess of Padua; Vera, or the Nihilists; A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane”, p.557, Bloomsbury Publishing

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