Quotes About Change

If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different.

Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age. I consider that for any man of culture to accept the standard of his age is a form of the grossest immorality.

A strange sense of loss came over him. He felt that Dorian Gray would never again be to him all that he had been in the past. Life had come between them.... His eyes darkened, and the crowded, flaring streets became blurred to his eyes. When the cab drew up at the theatre, it seemed to him that he had grown years older.

Olvidar un hecho, es modificar el pasado.

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different.

The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that.

The picture, changed or unchanged, would be to him the visible emblem of conscience.

For lo, what changes time can bring! The cycles of revolving years May free my heart from all its fears, And teach my lips a song to sing. Before yon field of trembling gold Is garnered into dusty sheaves, Or ere the autumn's scarlet leaves Flutter as birds adown the wold, I may have run the glorious race, And caught the torch while yet aflame, And called upon the holy name Of Him who now doth hide His face. ARONA.

He who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.

La tragedia de la vejez no consiste en ser viejo, sino en haber sido joven.

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public.  Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grandperes ont toujours tort.

I don't desire to change anything in England except the weather

Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.

I was obliged to call on dear Lady Harbury.  I hadn't been there since her poor husband's death.  I never saw a woman so altered; she looks quite twenty years younger. 

Ah! this morning! You have lived since then!

Las emociones de las personas que se ha dejado de amar siempre tienen algo de ridículo.

The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything nowadays. 

Sir John's temper since he has taken seriously to politics has become quite unbearable. Really, now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.