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. 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.

It was simply a very second-rate Turner, a Turner of a bad period, with all the painter’s worst faults exaggerated and over-emphasized. If you want to know more or withdraw your consent to all or some of the cookies, please refer to the cookie policy. Have you had difficulty figuring out where to start, what path to take or just wanted some advice to get you to the next level? Delighted to find these precious Penguin Little Black Classics in kindle format too - I have several in paperback format, but 'Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast' deserves an open page on my kindle on a permanent basis. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish playwright, poet, and author of numerous short stories, and one novel.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. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. More Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon.

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. 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.It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself' Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his own genius.

a critic should be taught to criticize a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.Part of Penguin’s Little Black Classics series to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946, this one was a cute gift from Queen Mary University of London waaaay back when I was applying for my undergrad. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. All in all, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast is a lovely little collection to introduce people to the brilliant mind of Oscar Wilde.