Quotes About Value

Everyone is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden...

The fact is that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious.

No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself

Lord Henry had not yet come in. He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

Now, the value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are the most 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.

Never love anybody who treats you like you're ordinary.

Punctuality is but the thief of time

For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses.  It has led Individualism entirely astray.  It has made gain not growth its aim.  So that man thought that the important thing was to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.  The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is.

Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.

Si no podéis disfrutar leyendo un libro repetidas veces, de nada sirve leerlo ni una sola vez.

A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. I have just learnt this, and much else with it, from Lord Goring. And I will not spoil your life for you, nor see you spoil it as a sacrifice to me, a useless sacrifice.

We all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man - that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

The drawback of stealing a thing, is that one never knows how wonderful the thing that one steals is.

It is only the sacred things that are worth touching, Dorian

I am less to you than your ivory Hermes or your silver Faun. You will like them always. How long will you like me? Till I have my first wrinkle, I suppose. I know, now, that when one loses one's good looks, whatever they may be, one loses everything. Your picture has taught me that. Lord Henry Wotton is perfectly right. Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

Nowadays people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour.

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man—that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

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

In life there is really no great or small thing. All things are of equal value and of equal size.

the value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

Robert, men can love what is beneath them—things unworthy, stained, dishonoured.  We women worship when we love; and when we lose our worship, we lose everything.