"Time is a waste of money...." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid.”

“Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef.”

“In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.”

“The life of a wise man is most of all extemporaneous, for he lives out of an eternity which includes all time.”

“Opinionum enim commenta delet dies; naturæ judicia confirmat.Time destroys the groundless conceits of men; it confirms decisions founded on reality.”

“Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you will see later is not yet.”

“One of the evils of paper money is that it turns the whole country into stock jobbers. The precariousness of its value and the uncertainty of its fate continually operate, night and day, to produce this destructive effect. Having no real value in itself it depends for support upon accident, caprice, and party; and as it is the interest of some to depreciate and of others to raise its value, there is a continual invention going on that destroys the morals of the country.”

“The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.”

“The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.”