Quotes about Value

To know the vintage and quality of a wine one need not drink the whole cask. It must be perfectly easy in half an hour to say whether a book is worth anything or worth nothing. Ten minutes are really sufficient, if one has the instinct for form. Who wants to wade through a dull volume? One tastes it, and that is quite enough — more than enough, I should imagine.

It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

It is only the sacred things that are worth touching.

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

What does money matter? Love is more than money.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.

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.

what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose'-how does the quotation run?-'his own soul'?

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.

One could never pay too high a price for any sensation.

Trust me.... You are important