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Money Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Genius is born-not paid
- 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…
- 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.
- No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
- 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…
- Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
- It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
- Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
- Time is a waste of money.
- When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.
- 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…
- Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
- Time is waste of money.
- Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything, and when they grow older, they know it.
- There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.
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