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

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Art, even the art of fullest scope and widest vision, can never really show us the external world. All that it shows us is our own soul, the one world of which we have any real cognizance … It is Art, and Art only, that reveals us to ourselves. that made me feel awesome while participating in the very art-centric activity of reading a book of Oscar Wilde quotes. you forget that a thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.” talking about religion? 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. Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast* Is a lively collection of quotes, witticisms and meaningful thoughts by the wonderful mind of Oscar Wilde.

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. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”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" Anyway. This book is great, it has the best title of all time (I honestly bought it for the title) and I'm so excited to get workin' on my Complete Works of Oscar Wilde collection now.

To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less" 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. Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his own genius. I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices.” LIFE CHEATS US WITH SHADOWS. WE ASK IT FOR PLEASURE. IT GIVES IT TO US, WITH BITTERNESS AND DISAPPOINTMENT IN ITS TRAIN.No one survives being over-estimated, nor is there any surer way of destroying an author’s reputation than to glorify him without judgement and to praise him without tact." One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.” 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. 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?" Oh, how I wish I had Oscar Wilde as my bosom friend! There would have been no dull moment in my life.