Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
Oscar WildeRead
If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes the responsibility to counter negativity with positive dialogue.
Oscar Wilde's quote suggests that when confronted with unpleasantness or negativity, such as 'bad music', it is our obligation to respond with engaging conversation that elevates the atmosphere. This underscores the idea that we have the power and responsibility to influence our surroundings positively, rather than succumbing to negativity.
Themes
MusicConversationNegativityResponsibilityPositivity
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be quoted during a speech on the importance of positive communication.
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
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
Henry MooreRead
This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.
Salman RushdieRead
Film is truth 24 times a second, and every cut is a lie.
Jean-Luc GodardRead
Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.
John CleeseRead
I think all the great studio filmmakers are dead or no longer working. I don't put myself, my friends, and other contemporary filmmakers in their category. I just see us doing some work.
Martin ScorseseRead
Classical - perhaps I should say 'orchestral' - music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically, pitchwise and in terms of the roles of the musicians. It's all in little boxes. The reason you get child prodigies in chess, arithmetic, and classical composition is that they are all worlds of discontinuous, parceled-up possibilities.
Brian EnoRead