Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I should fancy that the real tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self-denial.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The rich would have spoken on the value of thrift and the idle grown eloquent over the dignity of labour.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
