Oscar Wilde Quotes

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

I love Romney. It is not his fault that he is the son of a successful governor and makes $20 million a year.

It's easy for the thought-leader and executive classes to embrace a 'do what you love and love what you do' philosophy when they are wealthy enough to work hard only voluntarily, and when their jobs grant them status.

I wasn't born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

I don't like inherited wealth.

You can’t be rich, strong, and loved, particularly by those who are not rich or strong.

The poor should not have to learn how to be frugal and the rich should not have to learn to be extravagant.

There are but two families in the world … The haves and the have-nots.

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

A person born in the middle class, as I was, educated in bourgeois institutions, … is poorly prepared to take a leading part in revolutionary activity.

When I was a young fellow I was very much disturbed by there being some people with lots of money and lots of people with no money.

The level of real income is not what determines whether they are happy or not. It’s their relative place in the pecking order.

I am a capitalist—a rich businessman and most of you are not.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

…nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

People who are wealthy tend to be treated much more fairly in our criminal justice system.

Our parents’ incomes play a larger role in our personal economic fortunes than is true for other peer countries.

Liberty is impossible if 36 thousand families at the top of the economic pyramid get as much income as 12 million families at the bottom.

I don't think that the rich should be attacked. There's nothing wrong in being rich.

Nobody likes being around poor people, especially poor people.

I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.