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Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast QUOTES

Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast QUOTES

1 " To become a work of art is the object of living. "

― Oscar Wilde , Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

2 " Anybody can have common sense, povided that they have no imagination "

― Oscar Wilde , Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

3 " There is a great deal to be said in favour of reading a novel backwards. The last page is as a rule the most interesting, and when one begins with the catastrophe or the dénouement one feels on pleasant terms of equality with the author. It is like going behind the scenes of a theatre. One is no longer taken in, and the hair-breadth escapes of the hero and the wild agonies of the heroine leave one absolutely unmoved. One knows the jealously guarded secret, and one can afford to smile at the quite unnecessary anxiety that the puppets of fiction always consider it their duty to display. "

― Oscar Wilde , Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

4 " But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good. "

― Oscar Wilde , Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

5 " The fact is that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. "

― Oscar Wilde , Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

6 " My duty to myself is to amuse myself terrifically. "

― Oscar Wilde , Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

7 " it would be a very good thing if people were taught how to speak. Language is the noblest instrument we have, either for the revealing or the concealing of thought; talk itself is a sort of spiritualized action; and conversation is one of the loveliest of the arts. "

― Oscar Wilde , Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

8 " It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself "

― Oscar Wilde , Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

9 " The fact is that we look back on the ages entirely through the medium of Art, and Art, very fortunately, has never once told us the truth. "

― Oscar Wilde , Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

10 " Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all. "

― Oscar Wilde , Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

11 " by nature and by choice, i am extremely indolent. "

― Oscar Wilde , Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

12 " Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
In art, as in politics, there is but one origin for all revolutions, a desire on the part of man for a nobler form of life, for a freer method and opportunity of expression "

― Oscar Wilde , Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

13 " Things last either too long or not long enough. "

― Oscar Wilde , Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

14 " The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one’s own perfection, to make one’s every dream a reality. "

― Oscar Wilde , Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

15 " The value of the telephone is the value of what two people have to say. "

― Oscar Wilde , Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

16 " Yesterday evening Mrs Arundel insisted on my going to the window, and looking at the glorious sky, as she called it. Of course I had to look at it. She is one of those absurdly pretty Philistines to whom one can deny nothing. And what was it? It was simply a very second-rate Turner, a Turner of a bad period, with all the painter’s worst faults exaggerated and over-emphasized. "

― Oscar Wilde , Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

17 " It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal. I hope you will never fall into that error. If you do, you will be sorry for it. "

― Oscar Wilde , Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

18 " It would be unfair to expect people to be as remarkable as oneself. "

― Oscar Wilde , Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

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

― Oscar Wilde , Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

20 " We all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little. "

― Oscar Wilde , Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast