Oscar Wilde Quotes About Time
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.
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He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
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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.
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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.
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Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.
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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.
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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.
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
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Punctuality is the thief of time
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If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
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Time is a waste of money.
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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.
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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
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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.
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Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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Those whom the gods love grow young.
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