Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast (Penguin Little Black Classics, #119)

by Oscar Wilde

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.

Bahahahahaha

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.

Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

There is no country in the world so much in need of unpractical people as this country of ours. With us, Thought is degraded by its constant association with practice … We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

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.

High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Love it!

The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

Magic

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation …

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

English people are far more interested in American barbarism than they are in American civilization.

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

(Conservative) Politicians take note!

Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

.................can probably add drugs to that, in this modern day

She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

[She] talks more and says less than anybody I ever met. She is made to be a public speaker.

................or an Executive

My duty to myself is to amuse myself terrifically.

Fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six months.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

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

You got that right Oscar, unfortunately

Nothing succeeds like excess.

Music … creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.

Yes!!!!

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.