Quotes & Sayings About Money Oscar Wilde

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. — Oscar Wilde

With your spare time and money, make a difference for those who can't afford a life. — Debasish Mridha

Alas, for our foolish human nature! Its fond mistakes are persistent. The dictates of reason take a long time to assert their sway. — Rabindranath Tagore

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. — Oscar Wilde

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. — Oscar Wilde

Time is a waste of money. — Oscar Wilde

Apart from man, no being wonders at its own experience. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Money as such is, as Oscar Wilde said, perfectly useless. You can't eat it, drink it, shelter yourself from the cold with it, wear it, or make love with it unless deeply disturbed. In and of itself, it has no emotions, no mind, and no conscience. It doesn't put out flowers or have children, and it makes a lousy pet. It has meaning only when it circulates, and is exchanged for other things; and money doesn't do that for itself. People do that, using money as a symbolic token. — Margaret Atwood

When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money — Oscar Wilde

You don't need money to be kind, but you cannot be kind without a heart. — Debasish Mridha

It is to be noted that Jesus never says that impoverished people are necessarily good, or wealthy people necessarily bad. That would not have been true. Wealthy people are, as a class, better than impoverished people, more moral, more intellectual, more well-behaved. There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. That is the misery of being poor. What Jesus does say is that man reaches his perfection, not through what he has, not even through what he does, but entirely through what he is. — Oscar Wilde

No gentleman ever has any money. — Oscar Wilde

True education is more powerful than money or weapons. It is the key to a magical land where nothing is impossible. — Debasish Mridha

I started off playing by ear, and being around a bunch of musicians and playing in the streets and in the different parades and, then, I got accepted to go to New Orleans Center for Creative Artists ... it's where Wynton Marsalis, Harry Connick, Jr. and all those guys went out. — Troy Andrews

But I don't want money. It is only people who pay their bills who want that, Uncle George, and I never pay mine — Oscar Wilde

The currency of a happy life is not money, but it is pure love. — Debasish Mridha

Robert, how could you have sold yourself for money?
I did not sell myself for money. I bought success at a great price. That is all. — Oscar Wilde

The French, for example, are a contemptible nation. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back. — Oscar Wilde

Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers are comic but never amusing. Your Water Tower is a castellated monstrosity with pepperboxes stuck all over it. I am amazed that any people could so abuse Gothic art and make a structure not like a water tower but like a tower of a medieval castle. It should be torn down. It is a shame to spend so much money on buildings with such an unsatisfactory result. Your city looks positively dreary. — Oscar Wilde

In the square below,' said the Happy Prince, 'there stands a little match-girl. She has let her matches fall in the gutter, and they are all spoiled. Her father will beat her if she does not bring home some money, and she is crying. She has no shoes or stockings, and her little head is bare. Pluck out my other eye, and give it to her, and her father will not beat her.'

'I will stay with you one night longer,' said the Swallow, 'but I cannot pluck out your eye. You would be quite blind then.'

'Swallow, Swallow, little Swallow,' said the Prince, 'do as I command you.'

So he plucked out the Prince's other eye, and darted down with it. He swooped past the match-girl, and slipped the jewel into the palm of her hand. 'What a lovely bit of glass,' cried the little girl; and she ran home, laughing.

Then the Swallow came back to the Prince. 'You are blind now,' he said, 'so I will stay with you always. — Oscar Wilde

the written word is a recent invention that has left no trace in our genome and must be laboriously acquired throughout childhood and beyond. Speech — Steven Pinker

it. But I don't want money. It is only people who pay their bills who want that, Uncle George, and I never pay mine. Credit is the capital of a younger son, and one lives charmingly upon it. Besides, — Oscar Wilde

When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money. — Oscar Wilde

What does money matter? Love is more than money. — Oscar Wilde

Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.
Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it. — Oscar Wilde

She told me of your two chief faults, your vanity, and your being, as she termed it, "all wrong about money". I have a distinct recollection of how I laughed. I had no idea that the first would bring me to prison, and the second to bankruptcy. — Oscar Wilde

You may not be rich with money, Socrates was not, your life still has tremendous value. — Debasish Mridha

The real currency of life is not money but love. Real success comes not from earning but from giving. — Debasish Mridha

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

We all exist in similar systems that mirror and reproduce the same American culture for the most part. What Oscar Wilde said about the lucky author who has a non-literary day job no longer holds, if it ever did. Artists seek validation as much as they seek money. The creation and invention of culture and canon is where most of the trouble lies. — Fady Joudah