Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
Oscar WildeRead
When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Food can provide comfort during difficult times.
This quote by Oscar Wilde reflects the idea that in moments of distress, people often seek solace in simple pleasures, such as food. Wilde humorously expresses his reliance on eating as a form of consolation, emphasizing the deep connection between our emotions and our eating habits, particularly highlighting his fondness for muffins as a source of comfort.
Themes
FoodComfortHappinessMuffinsConsole
In practice
Example use cases
Sharing this quote during a food-related event to emphasize the comfort of good food.
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
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
Robert Louis StevensonRead
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
MoliereRead
We don’t need more money, we don’t need greater success or fame, we don’t need the perfect body or even the perfect mate-right now, at this very moment, we have a mind, which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve complete happiness.
Dalai LamaRead
...I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life!
Oprah WinfreyRead
You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.
Gertrude SteinRead
Don't worry about a thing, every little thing is gonna be alright
Bob MarleyRead