Oscar Wilde Quotes

Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

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

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.

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.

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.