Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

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About Oscar Wilde

Portrait of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in...

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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

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One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

All art is quite useless.

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Life… is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.

—Douglas Adams

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

—Marlene Dietrich

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My wife and I tried two to three times in the last forty years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable that we had to stop.

—Winston Churchill

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People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

—Max Beerbohm

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For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don’t enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are that you’re not going to be very happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn’t going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.

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