9 Oscar Wilde Quotes on Time

Oscar Wilde quotes on time

12. Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

68. He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

83. Punctuality is the thief of time.

119. What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.

175. Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is.

176. Usually quoted as: No man is rich enough to buy back his own past.

186. Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

190. My dear father, when one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

212. I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.