These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.

Quote by Oscar Wilde

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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

He hadn't a single redeeming vice.

He hadn't a single redeeming vice.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives....

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives....

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It...

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It...

We all live in the gutter but some of us are looking up at the...

We all live in the gutter but some of us are looking up at the...

A man cannot reason with the woman he loves: he cares about her too much.

A man cannot reason with the woman he loves: he cares about her too much.

While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to...

While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to...

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life...

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life...

To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim

To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim

The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles...

The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles...

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like...

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like...

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless...

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless...

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It...

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It...

The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived

The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived

It's a shame that most people associate the appreciation of space as being high. Space...

It's a shame that most people associate the appreciation of space as being high. Space...

The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth

The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth