Quote by Oscar Wilde

The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.

The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was g

Summary

This quote suggests that as time goes on, individuals become increasingly dissatisfied with the ways and values of previous generations. It implies a belief in progress and the idea that the standards and practices of the past should not simply be accepted or adhered to without question. It implies a desire for improvement, innovation, and a constant search for better alternatives, suggesting that complacency with the ways of the past is not sufficient for the present generation.

Topics

Generations

By Oscar Wilde

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

GritarÃ© para que vuelvas

GritarÃ© para que vuelvas

Love Gratitude

I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly sel

I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit.

Experience Pride Reading Thought Television Writing

If Scotland and America go to war, I'm afraid I've already s

If Scotland and America go to war, I'm afraid I've already sworn in.

War

Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done fo

Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader wou

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

Reading

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely m

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.

Psychiatry

You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a gov

You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

Government

You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but neve

You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing

Forgiveness Christianity

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who sh

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Agreement

There was a time when young people respected learning and li

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.

Learning

I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claimi

I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

James Gordon Bennett

Mistakes

I told my mom, 'I'm not buying another magazine until I can

I told my mom, 'I'm not buying another magazine until I can get past this thought of looking like the girl on the cover'. She said, "Miley, you are the girl on the cover,' and I was, like, 'I know, but I don't feel like that girl every day.' You can't always feel perfect.

Mom