Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
Oscar WildeRead
When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote reflects on the differences in entertainment and social dynamics between urban and rural settings.
Oscar Wilde's quote highlights the contrasting experiences of being in a town versus the countryside. It suggests that while urban life tends to focus on self-amusement, rural life often involves engaging with and entertaining others, leading to a sense of boredom in the latter. Wilde uses this observation to comment on the societal expectations and feelings of isolation that can arise in different environments, emphasizing the complex nature of human interactions based on one’s surroundings.
Themes
EntertainmentTownCountrySocialBoredom
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about urban life versus rural living.
More from Oscar Wilde
All quotes →London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.
Oscar WildeRead
When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.
Oscar WildeRead
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
Oscar WildeRead
A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.
Oscar WildeRead
His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be
Oscar WildeRead
Similar quotes
En ningún momento de la historia, en ningún lugar del planeta, las religiones han servido para que los seres humanos se acerquen unos a los otros. Por el contrario, sólo han servido para separar, para quemar, para torturar. No creo en dios, no lo necesito y además soy buena persona.
Jose SaramagoRead
IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.
Ambrose BierceRead
I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity.
Philip LevineRead
Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
Walter LippmannRead
America is a young country with an old mentality.
George SantayanaRead
It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.
Albert EinsteinRead