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1. • • know the price of everything and the value of nothing To be so materialistic that one is unable to gauge or recognize something's true value. The phrase comes from Oscar Wilde.
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   What is a man who knows the price?

   • A man who knows the price... What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive! 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

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   Who thinks more about money than the rich?

   • There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever. All modes of government are failures.

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   What is the value of an idea?

   • Now, the value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.

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   • Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. De Profundis (1905)
   • I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. An Ideal Husband (1895)
   • We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. The Canterville Ghost (1887)
   • Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) act 1.

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   Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow.

   Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance — And must I lose a soul's inheritance?

   If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

   And down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandalled feet, Crept like a frightened girl.

   Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.

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

   The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him....

   Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

   A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

   Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

   A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

   And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

   We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

   It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.

   All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

   The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.

   Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. She is a veil, rather than a mirror.

   All art is immoral.

   He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

   le mystère de l'amour est plus grand que le mystère de la mort.

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   Alphabetized by author The English writers who had a big influence on me during my adolescence were Sir Walter Scott, Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, Charles Dickens, Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf. From the beginning Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fate had taken the plot out o...

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   That is what the world calls a romance.” “I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.” “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” “Children...

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   Dec 16, 2022 · Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

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    Knows the price of everything, the value of nothing. This is Oscar Wilde’s famous definition of a cynic in Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892) Act III. The full quotation is, “What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”.

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    The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed. Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.