Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast by Oscar Wilde

Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast Reviews

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  Elena

  Like if Oscar Wilde had Twitter.
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  m.

  oscar wilde you insufferable little twink you would have loved twitter
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  Clara (The Bookworm of Notre-Dame)

  Oscar Wilde is funny as he is clever and arrogant. I may have fallen in love with him.
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  daniella ❀

  rip oscar wilde you would've loved taylor swift and phoebe bridgers
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  elio

  there is NO WAY this man is a libra??? he’s the most leo person that ever existed
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  che

  so, gay people are just built like this.
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  emma

  (tearfully) I did it.
  
  Book 3 of BookTube-a-thon is complete!! Prompt: Read an entire book outside.
  
  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.
  
  The only change I've noticed is I'm itchy. At least now I'm indoors, thank God.
  
  Things that made it an easier task:
  -this book is straight up 52 pages long
  -Oscar Wilde has some great somewhat-anti-nature quotes, including "My own experience is that the more we study art, the less we care for nature...Art is our spirited protest, our gallant attempt to teach Nature her proper place"
  -that made me feel awesome while participating in the very art-centric activity of reading a book of Oscar Wilde quotes.
  
  Anyway. This book is great, it has the best title of all time (I honestly bought it for the title) and I'm so excited to get workin' on my Complete Works of Oscar Wilde collection now.
  
  I probably won't do it for 18 months, but still.
  
  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.
  
  Bottom line: Very fun and quick and impressive and short and beautiful. (But also I can't give 5 stars to a book of quotes.)
  
  I will leave you with a quote that made me laugh out loud:
  
  "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.
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  Attempting to complete the "Read an entire book outside" prompt for BookTube-a-thon.
  
  I'm having a bad time.
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  Hayley

  i had some nice chuckles while reading this piece
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  Zerah

  Pure genius. This is something you should read again and again throughout your life.
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  walkingtragedy

  3.5 ig this is what gina linetti meant when she said “turn my tweets into a book”
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  Kasa Cotugno

  My grandmother had several hilarious sayings that she would trot out whenever appropriate (e.g., "I can resist anything but temptation;" "Nobody has as much fun as people.") I always thought she was one of the funniest people on earth and then found out she had cribbed most of her best shots from Oscar Wilde. This little black book is a collection of his bon mots, a good reference work if you wish to appear witty and perceptive until somebody else gets hold of the book in which case you'll be so busted. Like my grandmother.
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  Katie Lumsden

  Wilde a this wittiest. I like that this collection of quotes and wit has a nice mix of ironic statements and points that are actually rather serious and pertinent.
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  Josie 💛

  Mr. Wilde, you pretentious, and arrogant man, I love you.
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  Eira Stella

  I’m a whore for Oscar Wilde
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  WhatIReallyRead

  Initially, I thought this was going to be a piece of short prose by Wilde and was surprised I couldn't find it in any collections of his works. So I bought the thankfully cheap e-book. It turned out to be a collection of Oscar Wilde's quotes and aphorisms.
  
  It was a pleasant reading experience. Wilde's thoughts are often expressed in a witty and/or provoking manner, and you have to pause to consider the actual meaning behind the amusing phrase. I like his style, and this collection was the pure essence of it.
  
  Since I read 3 of his plays almost back to back with this short piece, I recognized a lot of the quotes. Still, I think it's a huge drawback this ebook didn't state where the quotes came from. It was sometimes difficult to tell if the phrase was said by Wilde himself, or by one of the characters in his fiction - and that's the kind of thing I want to be able to distinguish.
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  Helga

  This is a collection of quotes by one of the wittiest humans ever!
  
  "The aim of love is to love: no more, and no less."
  
  Oh, how I wish I had Oscar Wilde as my bosom friend! There would have been no dull moment in my life.
  
  Some of my favorite quotes:
  
  "Pleasure is the only thing one should live for. Nothing ages like happiness."
  "Nothing is worth doing except what the world says is impossible."
  "Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither."
  "Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
  "All love is a tragedy."
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  lisa (lewis hamilton's version)

  rip oscar wilde bestie would have loved twitter
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  alexia

  second time reading this masterpiece because it is the most mind opening book i’ve ever read
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  Merel ⚘

  this was like reading oscar’s twitter feed. some hits, some misses, enjoyable overall
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  leah

  as someone who believes morning people are a myth, the title of this is my manifesto
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  emma

  this was like reading twitter or one’s deepest thoughts. the wit evident here is like no other. pure genius; to read oscar wilde’s work is a gift.
  
  "i like persons better than principles, and i like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.”
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  sahar 𖤐

  “when a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her.” oscar wilde u would have loved tumblr
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  library ghost (taylor's version)

  the only dream i have from now on is to be someone oscar wilde would approve of
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  ella grace

  i really need to start making notes of my random thoughts so someone can turn them into a book in 100 years
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  ZOË

  A silly goofy mood of a book
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  John Hatley

  This little gem of a book was delivered today and once I had picked it up and started reading it, I couldn’t put it back down again. It is a collection of some 300 of Oscar Wilde’s brilliant witticisms that I can recommend to anyone who likes him or wants to get to know him.
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  Paula

  i felt like reading twitter posts of a cocky teen and i loved every second of it
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  Gerhard

  'The things of nature do not really belong to us; we should leave them to our children as we have received them.'
  
  A sublime distillation of the enigma, voice of conscience, dissolute dilettante and insufferable prig that was Oscar Wilde. Long may he live.
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  kat ࿐ྂ ༉‧₊˚✧

  “I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”