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

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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. For what is Truth? In matters of religion, it is simply the opinion that has survived. In matters of science, it is the ultimate sensation. In matters of art, it is one's last mood.” To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less"

you forget that a thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.” talking about religion?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.

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." 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_editionIf 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. urn:lcp:onlydullpeoplear0000wild:epub:3adcf7fe-6b02-43e2-ac79-2df0de943cff Foldoutcount 0 Identifier onlydullpeoplear0000wild Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t51h0cf8w Invoice 1652 Isbn 9780241251805

The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of Faith, and the lesson of Romance.” 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. a critic should be taught to criticize a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author. this, in fact, is the beginning of criticism.” a possible reference to the media distaste/outrage towards “the picture of dorian grey”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. 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. PDF / EPUB File Name: Only_Dull_People_Are_Brilliant_at_Breakfas_-_Oscar_Wilde.pdf, Only_Dull_People_Are_Brilliant_at_Breakfas_-_Oscar_Wilde.epub Oh, how I wish I had Oscar Wilde as my bosom friend! There would have been no dull moment in my life.