Oscar Wilde on Time

"Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography."

"The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play."

"The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future."

"Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay."

"For a sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it."

"Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood."

"The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years."

"When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own."

"In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever."

"If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it."

"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."

"In old days men had the rack. Now they have the press."

"Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace."

"Time is a waste of money."

"In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press. That is an Improvement certainly. but still it is very bad, and wrong, and demoralising. Somebody - was it Burke? - called journalism the fourth estate. That was true at the time, no doubt. But at the present moment it really is the only estate. It has eaten up the other three. The Lords Temporal say nothing, The Lords Spiritual have nothing to say and the House of Commons has nothing to say and says it. We are dominated by journalism."