Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast (Penguin Little Black Classics)

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Oh, it is indeed a burning shame that there would be one law for men and another law for women. I think that there should be no law for anybody. The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of Faith, and the lesson of Romance.” After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.”

This guy is very quotable and I very much enjoyed reading this. There were a few quotes that made me feel, like, "How did this get in here?" But for the most part it is great. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” you forget that a thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.” talking about religion?

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Despite winning a first and the Newdigate Prize for Poetry, Wilde failed to obtain an Oxford scholarship, and was forced to earn a living by lecturing and writing for periodicals. After his marriage to Constance Lloyd in 1884, he tried to establish himself as a writer, but with little initial success. However, his three volumes of short fiction, The Happy Prince (1888), Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (1891) and A House of Pomegranates (1891), together with his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), gradually won him a reputation as a modern writer with an original talent, a reputation confirmed and enhanced by the phenomenal success of his Society Comedies - Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, all performed on the West End stage between 1892 and 1895. I literally hated every second of it. The being-outside, not the book. Nature is the worst. I got quite truly eaten alive by bugs, and I'm of the firm belief that if you get bitten by something then you should turn into something cool. When you get bitten by a vampire, you become a vampire. When you get bitten by a radioactive exotic spider in a lab, because the spider escaped its cage/prison even though the #1 priority of the scientists who work there should be to keep that spooky lil thing in its cage, ESPECIALLY WHEN THERE IS A FIELD TRIP IN THE VERY SAME ROOM, you become Spiderman. The musings and observations that fill this little book are wonderfully entertaining. Despite his arrogance, one can’t help but be amused. The witticisms range from sad and cynical to just pure brilliant and beautiful depending on the mood social media influencer Oscar Wilde is in. that made me feel awesome while participating in the very art-centric activity of reading a book of Oscar Wilde quotes. To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less"

High hopes were once formed by democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people" Are there not books that can make us live more in one single hour than life can make us live in a score of shameful years?" If you decide to read this, I bet there will he moments you’ll stop and think or shake your head, or laugh – it will certainly make you pause.

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PDF / EPUB File Name: Only_Dull_People_Are_Brilliant_at_Breakfas_-_Oscar_Wilde.pdf, Only_Dull_People_Are_Brilliant_at_Breakfas_-_Oscar_Wilde.epub Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.” Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2022-01-01 15:29:52 Boxid IA1998214 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier LIFE CHEATS US WITH SHADOWS. WE ASK IT FOR PLEASURE. IT GIVES IT TO US, WITH BITTERNESS AND DISAPPOINTMENT IN ITS TRAIN.

Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them".

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Many of these quotations will make you stop and think, a bit like a work of a Seneca, but as Oscar was obviously no Stoic, you’ll encounter quotes that will make you laugh and some you may even find preposterous. But that is the joy of this book. One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.” Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. He went to Trinity College, Dublin and then to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he began to propagandize the new Aesthetic (or 'Art for Art's Sake') Movement.