Oscar Wilde Quotes, Age Quotes, Seriousness Quotes

Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.

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The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet

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Every new born being indeed comes fresh and blithe into the new existence, and enjoys it as a free gift: but there is, and can be, nothing freely given. It's fresh existence is paid for by the old age and death of a worn out existence which has perished, but which contained the indestructible seed out of which the new existence has arisen: they are one being.

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Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

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Ages are All Equal. / But Genius is Always Above The Age.

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

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The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.

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[What she told herself before interviews:] I am the way I am; I look the way I look; I am my age.

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

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It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

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The Jews are the master robbers of the modern age.

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To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well.

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In youth all doors open outward; in old age all open inward.

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Old age hath stronger sense of right than youth.

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I do not believe that there are any such things as gods and goddesses, for exactly the same reasons as I do not believe there are fairies, goblins or sprites, and these reasons should be obvious to anyone over the age of ten.

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The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.

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It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.

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Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

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Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142.

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