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

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To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less"

LIFE CHEATS US WITH SHADOWS. WE ASK IT FOR PLEASURE. IT GIVES IT TO US, WITH BITTERNESS AND DISAPPOINTMENT IN ITS TRAIN. Oscar Wilde has some great somewhat-anti-nature quotes, including "My own experience is that the more we study art, the less we care for nature...Art is our spirited protest, our gallant attempt to teach Nature her proper place" 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.Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

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. 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?" It was a pleasant reading experience. Wilde's thoughts are often expressed in a witty and/or provoking manner, and you have to pause to consider the actual meaning behind the amusing phrase. I like his style, and this collection was the pure essence of it. Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.6 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA19865 Openlibrary_edition that made me feel awesome while participating in the very art-centric activity of reading a book of Oscar Wilde quotes.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2022-01-01 15:29:52 Boxid IA1998214 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier 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. Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast* Is a lively collection of quotes, witticisms and meaningful thoughts by the wonderful mind of Oscar Wilde. Oh, how I wish I had Oscar Wilde as my bosom friend! There would have been no dull moment in my life. Initially, I thought this was going to be a piece of short prose by Wilde and was surprised I couldn't find it in any collections of his works. So I bought the thankfully cheap e-book. It turned out to be a collection of Oscar Wilde's quotes and aphorisms.

PDF / EPUB File Name: Only_Dull_People_Are_Brilliant_at_Breakfas_-_Oscar_Wilde.pdf, Only_Dull_People_Are_Brilliant_at_Breakfas_-_Oscar_Wilde.epub 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. Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.” By publishing your document, the content will be optimally indexed by Google via AI and sorted into the right category for over 500 million ePaper readers on YUMPU. Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.”One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.”