Oscar Wilde Quotes About Wealth

• Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Money, Real

• Who, being loved, is poor?

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Positive, Poverty

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.583, Wordsworth Editions

• Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Life, Witty

  Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.16, New Line Publishing

• 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

  Funny, Life, Inspiring

• Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Marriage, Men

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.11, Wordsworth Editions

• Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Success, Ambition

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.615, Wordsworth Editions

• In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Disappointment, Crazy, Exercise

  Oscar Wilde, Merlin Holland (2003). “Collins complete works of Oscar Wilde”, HarperCollins UK

• The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are-- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Stupid, Hands

  Oscar Wilde (2018). “Oscar Wilde Collection”, p.11, Youcanprint

• The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

  Oscar Wilde

  Done, Literature, Singers

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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