Quotes About Change

Echan a perder todas las historias de amor intentando que duren para siempre.

Before Turner there was no fog in London.

You are remarkably modern, Mabel. A little too modern, perhaps. Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern. One is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.

I remember your saying once that there is a fatality about good resolutions—that they are always made too late. Mine certainly were.

The common hill-flowers wither, but they blossom again. The laburnum will be as yellow next June as it is now. In a month there will be purple stars on the clematis, and year after year the green night of its leaves will hold its purple stars. But we never get back our youth.

Jack: "Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?" Gwendolen: "I can. For I feel that you are sure to change.

You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity.

It would kill the past, and when that was dead, he would be free.

The pen is mightier than the paving-stone

Of course, married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose. DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important.

The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

Of course married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one's worse habits.

It is personalities, not principles, that move the age

At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.

You have not realized how I have developed. I was a schoolboy when you knew me. I am a man now. I have new passions new thoughts new ideas. I am different but you must not like me less. I am changed but you must always be my friend.

I should be sorry to be on the same level as an age like this.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. Sibyl Vane seemed to him to be absurdly melodramatic. Her tears and sobs annoyed him.

Discúlpeme, no le había reconocido: he cambiado mucho.

Indeed, as a rule, everybody turns out to be somebody else.

Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.

For the past is what man should not have been.  The present is what man ought not to be.  The future is what artists are.

I have known everything, said Lord Henry, with a tired look in his eyes, but I am always ready for a new emotion.

Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern.  One is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.