Quotes about Wisdom

Men become old, but they never become good.

Because you have the most marvellous youth, and youth is the one thing worth having. I don't feel that, Lord Henry. No, you don't feel it now. Some day, when you are old and wrinkled and ugly, when thought has seared your forehead with its lines, and passion branded your lips with its hideous fires, you will feel it, you will feel it terribly. Now, wherever you go, you charm the world.

The unread is always better than the unreadable.

Everyone is brilliant at breakfast.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.

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

Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

Cecily: Oh, yes. Dr. Chasuble is a most learned man. He has never written a single book, so you can imagine how much he knows.

The supreme vice is shallowness. Whatever is realised is right.

I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing. 

Even when one has been wounded by it, Harry? asked the duchess after a pause. Especially when one has been wounded by it, answered Lord Henry.

There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.