Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Quote by Oscar Wilde
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes
- A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
- But what is the difference between literature and journalism. Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
- About foxhunting: The unspeakable chasing the uneatable...
- Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
- Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream.
- A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give really unbiased opinions, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless.
- The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
- I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
- Arguments are to be avoided they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Best Quotes
- My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.
- You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.
- All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.
- Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.
- Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
- We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.
- Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.
- Now workers should have the right to join unions. But unions should not be forced upon workers. And unions should not have the power to take money our of their members' paychecks to buy the support of politicians that are favored by the union bosses.
- I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
- I've seen firsthand that being president doesn't change who you are. It reveals who you are.