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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter XIXIn context
- Comedy
- Youth
The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter XIXIn context
- Youth
If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new.
George Eliot1819–1880Middlemarch (1871–1872), Book VI: The Widow and the Wife, Chapter LVIn context
- Hope
- Youth
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
Louisa May Alcott1832–1888Little Women (1868–1869), Part Second, Chapter XXVIIn context
- Genius
- Youth
Thirty⁠—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning briefcase of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter VIIIn context
They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961A Farewell to Arms (1929), Book IV, Chapter XXXVIn context
- Wisdom
Two is the beginning of the end.
J. M. Barrie1860–1937Peter Pan (1911), Chapter IIn context
- Children
‘I don’t want ever to be a man,’ he said with passion. ‘I want always to be a little boy and to have fun. So I ran away to Kensington Gardens and lived a long long time among the fairies.
J. M. Barrie1860–1937Peter Pan (1911), Chapter IIIIn context
- Children
- Youth
We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.
Erich Maria Remarque1898–1970All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), Chapter VIn context
- War & Peace
- Youth
I have liv’d long enough: my way of life
Is fall’n into the sere, the yellow leaf;
And that which should accompany old age,
As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends,
I must not look to have
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act V, Scene III, spoken by MacbethIn context
Men must endure
Their going hence, even as their coming hither;
Ripeness is all.
William Shakespeare1564–1616King Lear (c. 1606), Act V, Scene II, spoken by EdgarIn context
- Life & Death
- Maturity
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Much Ado About Nothing (c. 1598), Act II, Scene III, spoken by BenedickIn context
- Change
A good old man, sir; he will be talking; as they say, ‘when the age is in, the wit is out.’
William Shakespeare1564–1616Much Ado About Nothing (c. 1598), Act III, Scene V, spoken by DogberryIn context
- Comedy
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), Third Act, spoken by Lady BracknellIn context
- Women
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.
Robert Herrick1591–1674To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time (1648)In context
- Time
- Youth