Quotes About Youth

Children never do understand their own childishness. Then

Para conservar la alegría de la infancia tendrías que morir siendo niño, o vivir como tal, sin convertirte nunca en hombre, sin crecde jamás.

Children never do understand their own childishness.

He disliked nearly all women and especially the young and pretty ones who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party the swallowers of slogans the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.

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

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied

A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.

Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.

Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

Genius lasts longer than beauty

Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.

LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

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

I wish you would tell me your secret. To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

What a fuss people make about fidelity! exclaimed Lord Henry. Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.

If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.

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

Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

When I was young I thought money was the most important thing in life, now that I'm old - I know it is!

LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?

To win back my youth, there is nothing I wouldn't do - except take exercise, get up early, or be a useful member of the community.