Quotes About Change

A new life! That was what he wanted. That was what he was waiting for. Surely he

then suddenly become fascinated by some one else. He would be a wonderful study.

You can dine with me to-night, Dorian, can't you?" He shook his head. "To-night she is Imogen," he answered, "and to-morrow night she will be Juliet." "When is she Sibyl Vane?" "Never." "I congratulate you.

A grapefruit is ionly a lemon that saw an oppurtunity and took advantage of it.

The one charm of the past is that it is in the past.

I know, now, that when one loses one's good looks, whatever they may be, one loses everything.

always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been. Art is a symbol, because man is a symbol.

The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

I don't desire to change anything in England except the weather, I am quite content with philosophical contemplation.

The one charm of the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. They always want a sixth act, and as soon as the interest of the play is entirely over, they propose to continue it. If

I wrote when I did not know life. Now that I know life, I have no more to write.

He felt that life was changeful, fluid, active, and that to allow it to be stereotyped into any form was death. He saw that people should not be too serious over material, common interests: that to be unpractical was to be a great thing: that one should not bother too much over affairs. The birds didn't, why should man?

The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out. 

Every Saint has a past. Every Sinner, has a future.

The only people to whose opinions I listen now with any respect are people much younger than myself. They seem in front of me. Life has revealed to them her latest wonder. As for the aged, I always contradict the aged. I do it on principle. If you ask them their opinion on something that happened yesterday, they solemnly give you the opinions current in 1820, when people wore high stocks, believed in everything, and knew absolutely nothing.

The one charm of the past is that it is past.

In the summer of '67, as a buffalo on the run

My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us, it makes us move.

Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country.

All world-improvers are Socialists. And consequently there are no Classical world-improvers.

When three liberals get together they form a new party; that is their idea of individualism. They never join a bowling club without introducing as part of the 'agenda' an 'amendment of the statutes.

We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.