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Oscar Wilde Quotes about Money

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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.51, Oxford University Press on Demand

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.4, Oscar Wilde

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 (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.1047, Wordsworth Editions

The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.187, Wordsworth Editions