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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.
PDF / EPUB File Name: Only_Dull_People_Are_Brilliant_at_Breakfas_-_Oscar_Wilde.pdf, Only_Dull_People_Are_Brilliant_at_Breakfas_-_Oscar_Wilde.epubDespite winning a first and the Newdigate Prize for Poetry, Wilde failed to obtain an Oxford scholarship, and was forced to earn a living by lecturing and writing for periodicals. After his marriage to Constance Lloyd in 1884, he tried to establish himself as a writer, but with little initial success. However, his three volumes of short fiction, The Happy Prince (1888), Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (1891) and A House of Pomegranates (1891), together with his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), gradually won him a reputation as a modern writer with an original talent, a reputation confirmed and enhanced by the phenomenal success of his Society Comedies - Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, all performed on the West End stage between 1892 and 1895. Many of these quotations will make you stop and think, a bit like a work of a Seneca, but as Oscar was obviously no Stoic, you’ll encounter quotes that will make you laugh and some you may even find preposterous. But that is the joy of this book.
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. urn:lcp:onlydullpeoplear0000wild:epub:3adcf7fe-6b02-43e2-ac79-2df0de943cff Foldoutcount 0 Identifier onlydullpeoplear0000wild Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t51h0cf8w Invoice 1652 Isbn 9780241251805 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.”
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Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.” 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"
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” High hopes were once formed by democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people" 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.
Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2022-01-01 15:29:52 Boxid IA1998214 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier LIFE CHEATS US WITH SHADOWS. WE ASK IT FOR PLEASURE. IT GIVES IT TO US, WITH BITTERNESS AND DISAPPOINTMENT IN ITS TRAIN. 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.
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