Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
Oscar WildeRead
Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Oscar Wilde expresses his struggle with poverty, likening it to an unsuccessful marriage.
In this quote, Oscar Wilde humorously compares his state of poverty to a marriage, referencing St. Francis of Assisi, who embraced poverty as a virtue. Wilde's use of the word 'wedded' suggests a deep commitment, yet he acknowledges that, unlike St. Francis, he does not find success or fulfillment in this union, reflecting on the difficulties and challenges that accompany poverty despite its romanticized ideals.
Themes
PovertyOscar WildeFailureCommitmentStruggle
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be shared in a discussion about the challenges of living with financial difficulties.
More from Oscar Wilde
All quotes βLondon 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
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
Lord ByronRead
Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.
Edward AbbeyRead
People who exploit others come to spend an enormous amount of energy wondering about and justifying that exploitation.
Mary BeardRead
The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be. It's self centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.
John TempletonRead
Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
Thomas MooreRead
We cannot discuss human rights, when we are denying people the right to live.
Ravi ZachariasRead