Thornton Wilder Quotes

If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.

... the most expensive luxury the war produced.

One today, is worth two tomorrow.

Once you start compromising, once you start trying to keep cost lower, this is not luxury. Luxury is wanting the best and using the best materials with which to do that.

Time is the only luxury. It's the only thing you can't get back. If you lose your luggage - I'm not gonna say the obvious brand of luggage that I'd normally say because I've got a meeting with them soon - if you lose your expensive luggage at the airport, you can get that back. You can't get the time back.

Fur is not murder, but it is quite expensive.

A real capitalist knows that $10 given today does a lot more good than $100 given 10 years from now.

In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.

Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.

I'm dreaming about making movies for eight weeks, because it's a luxury. But time is money. That's the reality.

Extravagant is, I think, the word we all thought when we met ... A lot of money went into that [The Grand Tour's ]. I just thought it would be a good idea to have a bridge from the old to the new and that was a way of saying 'Right, well now look where we are.'

A Lyons skin is never cheape.

For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive.

We can make up for lost money, but we can't make up for lost time.

The factor of time is very vital in life. Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been those who valued time in their life. The time of life is limited and a great amount of evolution has to be accomplished for fulfillment of life. Therefore, the factor of time must be valued above everything.

Money does not make you look expensive, it’s taste.

Your financial cost can best be figured out when you realize that if you were to devote the same time and energy to business instead of gold, you would be a millionaire in approximately six weeks.

The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

Time is your most important resource. You can do so much in ten minutes. Ten minutes; once gone is gone for good.

I was late once and it cost me $50,000. I figure it was cheaper to wear two watches.

We think about time as something not to waste, not as something to invest.

Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent it is gone forever.

Where, with your one rose you can buy hundreds of rose gardens?

Unfortunately, my ideas are not what you'd call commercial, and money really drives the boat these days. So I don't know what my future is. I don't have a clue what I'm going to be able to do in the world of cinema.