Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast Quotes

“It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“Anybody can have common sense, povided that they have no imagination”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“My duty to myself is to amuse myself terrifically.”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“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

“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

“To become a work of art is the object of living.”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“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

“Are there not books that make us live more in one single hour than life can make us live in a score of shameful years?”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“We all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“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

“Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“by nature and by choice, i am extremely indolent.”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“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

“The books that the world calls immoral books are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“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

“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

“Things last either too long or not long enough.”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“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

“My existence is a scandal.”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“What fire does not destroy, it hardens.”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“Conversation is one of the loveliest of the arts.”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“To live in happiness, you must know some unhappiness in life.”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“People never think of cultivating a young girl’s imagination. It is the great defect of modern education.”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“We live in the age of the over-worked, and under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“The more abstract, the more ideal an art is, the more it reveals to us the temper of its age. If we wish to understand a nation by means of its art, let us look at its architecture or its music.”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“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.”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“It would be unfair to expect people to be as remarkable as oneself.”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“Praise makes me humble, but when I am abused I know I have touched the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast