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

by Oscar Wilde

Lust … makes one love all that one loathes.

How marriage ruins a man! It’s as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

The happiness of a married man … depends on the people he has not married.

Girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don’t think it right. Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.

When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her.

There is only one real tragedy in a woman’s life. The fact that the past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

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

Only one thing remains infinitely fascinating to me, the mystery of moods. To be master of these moods is exquisite, to be mastered by them more exquisite still.

so why can’t you bring real things into your work

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