“Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.”

“The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.”

“LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.”

“Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.”

“The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.”

“I blame myself without reserve for my weakness. It was merely weakness. One half-hour with Art was always more to me than a cycle with you. Nothing really at any period of my life was ever of the smallest importance to me compared with Art. But in the case of an artist, weakness is nothing less than a crime, when it is a weakness that paralyses the imagination.”

“When I was young I thought money was the most important thing in life, now that I'm old - I know it is!”