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Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast (UK)
Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast (UK) | Oscar Wilde
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'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. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
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vivastory
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#AlphabetGame
Title that begins with the letter O
There are a few O options, but as i decided to post this in the AM, I inevitably gravitated to the Penguin Little Black Classic with the best title & containing his aphoristic brilliance:
“Are there not books that can make us live more in one single hour than life can make us live in a score of shameful years?“
“I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do-the day after.“👇

vivastory “Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.“ 2y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thank you for playing!! 2y
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veritysalter
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“As soon as people are old enough to know better, they don‘t know anything at all.” ~ Oscar Wilde

Eggs True 😂😂😂 4y
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veritysalter
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#GratefulReads - Day Four - #Under250Pages A little book full of the witticisms of Oscar Wilde, some are sharp and waspish, some will make you laugh out loud.

OriginalCyn620 Love Oscar Wilde! 🖤 4y
veritysalter @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Do you ever have times when toast is just the best thing in the world? 4y
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Andrea313
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BooknerdsLife 😆👍🏼 Great choice! 5y
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BooknerdsLife
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#OscarWilde is one of my favourite authors! His works always full of charms & witty quotes. This one might be
-the shortest book I own ✅
But It‘s definitely one of my favourites too. This little black book is just full of his wisdoms, with a collection of some of his best wittiest quotes. And Now! Just one more book to go & Im finished with the hunt! 🤗 #PenguinClassics #Booknerd
#MayScavengerHunt

BeansPage Wooohooo!!!! 5y
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Naj

" A community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment, than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime. "

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Naj

"Are there not books that can make us live more in one single hour than life can make us live in a score of shameful years? "

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Naj

"Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner."

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LauraBeth 😂😂 5y
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Naj
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emilyhaldi
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My family has a #fascination with the Royals, but my sister @AnnieD takes it to the next level with her bathroom reading...as seen in her London flat earlier this year 😉

#septemberdanes

Kalalalatja Bathroom goals 😄🙌 6y
BarbaraBB Lolol 😂👸🏻🤴 6y
Mdargusch Haha! 🤴🏻👸🏻 6y
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Reviewsbylola 😂😂😂😂 @annied takes most things to the next level lol. 6y
LeahBergen Those are fabulous!! 😂😂😂 6y
Megabooks Nice to know someone else is reading in the bathroom 🚽 🤪🤓 6y
CouronneDhiver 😂😂😂 6y
Blaire This is the best! 😂😂😂 6y
AnnieD @Reviewsbylola that‘s why you love me 5y
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AnneCecilie
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Another read that I find hard to categorize within the Litsy rating system. Buying this I was expecting a coherent text, and that is not what this is. It says at the end papers that this is selections from an other text and that is exactly what this feels like. It is as is someone sat down with the original text and selected the best quotes. And there is a lot of great quotes in there.

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Bookgirl91
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And now my read for the way home

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CSeydel
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#joyfulbookgiveaway

Came home to find a parcel waiting for me, all the way from Scotland, packed with generous gifts from @Christine11 !! I love everything, thank you! My daughter has called dibs on the washi tape already 😉 I can‘t wait to start on the coloring book, it‘s gorgeous! The notebook is adorable and everything is so thoughtful. Thank you 💗🙏🏼

CSeydel I am going to be so witty now, going around quoting Oscar Wilde in every conversation 😂 6y
mabell Lovely 😍😍 6y
Christine11 I‘m so glad it arrived safely! And you‘re very welcome - it was my pleasure! I think quoting Oscar Wilde in all your conversations is an excellent plan! 🤣😊💗 6y
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CSeydel It did! And thank you again 💗 6y
Betty @CSeydel I'm chuckling over your recent deleted comment. Thanks. 6y
CSeydel @Betty Heh, sometimes I react too quickly, forgetting that the Whole World probably shouldn‘t be privy to my every unfiltered reaction. 6y
CSeydel @Betty I haven‘t followed the Facebook discussion too closely, but I was a bit dismayed at Litsy members using that forum to tear each other down over how people use Litsy. Sad to see people getting downright rude over small differences of opinion. (edited) 6y
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vivastory
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saresmoore Gah. I love Oscar Wilde. 6y
Moray_Reads So. Many 6y
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vivastory
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"Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner."

TheLondonBookworm ??? Óscar Wilde never fails to make me laugh 6y
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vivastory
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As a lifelong protagonist, I feel this.

8leagueboot Oscar Wilde gets us 😅 6y
Kimberlone Mark Twain has a pretty similar quote about procrastinating 6y
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vivastory
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Best Penguin Little Black Classic title? Without a doubt!

Mdargusch I just read this this morning! Loved it ❤️ 6y
DiruVamp Love that title 😂🤓 6y
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Mdargusch
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Pickpick

First hour of readathon - read these two gems. I really loved this small book that is packed with Oscar Wilde‘s musings. The poetry on the other hand ... I think I need more coffee. Thank you @emilyhaldi ❤️. #24in48

emilyhaldi I need to get that Oscar Wilde for myself ☺️ glad you liked it! Perfect for the readathon. 6y
PurpleyPumpkin I love Oscar Wilde, but haven‘t read this one yet. Stacked!📚 6y
Reviewsbylola Oooh I need to grab the one I got for Xmas. 6y
nofutureparttwo I‘ve never seen these editions before but I love the covers! 6y
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Katiesbookishlife
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Yep, I feel the same way.

Kaye DARN. I do all those things and it‘s not working. 😮 6y
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Katiesbookishlife
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I too have made this discovery.

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Katiesbookishlife
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Oh dear, I happen to be perfectly brilliant at breakfast 🤔

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Caroline2
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I love these Penguin Little Black Classics! ❤️ 🐧 📚

bobregina Beautiful! 🖤 6y
MiyakoBunny 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 6y
TrishB They are lovely ❤️ 6y
minkyb Me too! I ordered a couple as gifts. 6y
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anj-neophyte
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mibf2017 book hauls

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inked.delights
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Oscar Wilde's Morning Wisdom 🌹
“My duty to myself is to amuse myself terrifically.”

Cheers to that, mr. Wilde! 🥂

#oscarwilde #morningwisdom

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vivastory
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#riotgrams
A whole set of tiny books

saresmoore 😍 7y
vivastory @saresmoore They're still publishing the little black classics. I will definitely be buying the new set when it's released 7y
RealBooks4ever Excellent! 💜👍🏼 7y
BeckyK Oh dear god 😍 6y
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inked.delights
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Oscar Wilde's Morning Wisdom 🌹
“What fire does not destroy, it hardens.”

• I like this quote, it makes me think of “what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.”

#oscarwilde #morningwisdom

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inked.delights
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Oscar Wilde's Morning Wisdom 🌹
“All love is a tragedy.”

• Ooh Oscar, you big dramatist and drama queen.. 😌

• He's right tho 🙄

#oscarwilde #morningwisdom

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inked.delights
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Oscar Wilde's Morning Wisdom 🌹
“Are there not books that can make us live more in one single hour than life can make us live in a score of shameful years?”

• Spoken like a wise man again, Oscar Wilde ❤️

• For me, The Secret History by Donna Tartt is one of those books 📖 Does this quote make you think of a certain book?

#oscarwilde #morningwisdom

quietlycuriouskate For me, anything by Dostoevsky. I love him but feel I've aged twenty years every time I finish one of his novels. 7y
Kettarian_Chiffa I'm with @River_Voice on Dostoevsky. Or Tolstoy. Reading their works usually leaves me utterly exhausted and with major case of a book hangover. 7y
inked.delights @River_Voice @Kettarian_Chiffa But that are good things right? 😅 I never read any Dostoevsky/Tolstoy, which work do you recommend to read first? 7y
quietlycuriouskate @inked.delights My favourite of the Russians is Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" but Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" might be an easier way in. @Kettarian_Chiffa is right, though, you're pretty much guaranteed a book hangover! 7y
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inked.delights
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Oscar Wilde's Morning Wisdom 🌹

“To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.”

• No truer words were once spoken! To be happy with yourself, you have to love yourself! 💖

• So y'all give yourself a kiss and appreciate all the wonderful things that you are 🤗 and never forget that!

• I love this little book full of wisdom so much that I'm reading my favourite quotes during coffee every morning ☕️

#oscarwilde #morningwisdom

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inked.delights
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Oscar Wilde's Morning Wisdom 🌹
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”

• I read Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast last weekend. It's a Penguin Little Black Classic with a collection of the most genius quotes of Oscar Wilde ✨
• Oscar Wilde is my bae 💖 he is almost as narcissistic as I am 😌 I can really relate to that quote (just kidding, but really.. 😇)

#oscarwilde #morningwisdom

alexreadsboooks Aah I adore Oscar Wilde! I'll have to pick up a copy of this as soon as I get the chance 😍 7y
inked.delights @alexreadsboooks Yeah! Do it! You're not going to regret it if you adore Oscar Wilde 😊 those little classics are also not expensive at all 😄 7y
alexreadsboooks @inked.delights yeah I remember seeing them at the uni bookshop in the UK but I since moved back to Germany and none of my local bookshops carry them 😅 7y
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inked.delights @alexreadsboooks aah that sucks ☹️ well, you now have an excuse to visit the UK then 😌 7y
alexreadsboooks @inked.delights Next year maybe. I'm going to Paris later this year (I hope) and maybe Shakespeare and Co. will have some little classics for me to buy 7y
inked.delights @alexreadsboooks omg that's so nice! I'm jealous 😊 I'm dying to go to Shakespeare and Co again 😭 my favourite bookshop in the World 😍 7y
alexreadsboooks @inked.delights I love that place so much ever since I visited a few years ago! 😍😍 I can't wait to go again! 7y
inked.delights @alexreadsboooks I wish you a lot of fun and make sure that you get that awesome stamp in the books you buy there! 😄 7y
BooknerdsLife @inked.delights Oh Oscar Wilde is one of my all time favorite 😍😍 This one is such a delight 😁 7y
inked.delights @BookwormEliza Isn't it?! I feel like carrying it with me the whole day ☺️ 7y
Jess_Read_This Based on your first two posts, I immediately thought "I think she is going to a cool Litten I'd like to know!" I love Oscar Wilde. Welcome to Litsy and I'm looking forward to chatting books with you! 7y
inked.delights @Jess_Read_This Haha thank you so much! ❤️ can't wait to talk about books with all of you 😊 The amount of enthusiasm and love and wonderful people is incredibly high here at Litsy! 7y
alexreadsboooks @inked.delights will do! Thank you ❤ 7y
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elliemcc11
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Dull weather #wtforecast

Had to see what the fuss is all about 🤣

Jess_Read_This 😂I've gotten some good ones on it. 7y
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Simona
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My attempt to be spine-poet. The title of spine-poem is book in the tag ... just because I like peculiar titles 😁

#spinepoetry

Spiderfelt Nicely done! 7y
Roselyn_Reads Love it 7y
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Moray_Reads Wow, well done! 7y
Simona @Moray_Reads Thank you 🙏😊 7y
LibrarianRyan This is awesome!🤓 7y
kspenmoll 👏👏 7y
RealLifeReading Brilliant! 7y
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BeckyK
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I don't seem to have any books with a REALLY #longtitle for day 12 of #booktober. These are the longest really. Good books too :) I'm currently reading The Curious Incident, and Oscar Wilde speaks for himself ❤️

BeththeBookDragon I love the Wilde title! And Curious Incident is a great book! 7y
BeckyK @bethfriedman906 I'm really enjoying Curious Incident :) and love Wilde :) 7y
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BeckyK
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These have arrived 😍 I love penguin little black classics! I wish I had them all. #penguinlittleblackclassics #oscarwilde #arthurconandoyle

MrBook Oh wow, those are beautiful! 8y
BeckyK @MrBook they're lovely aren't they! 8y
MrBook Very 😊👍🏻 8y
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HotCocoaReads
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This book is mainly just quotable snippets that came from some of Wilde's longer works, his essays I believe. Because it's just random thoughts, it's the kind of book that is ideal for reading while distracted. I started and finished during breakfast. You get a real feel for Wilde's humor for sure!

eoanthoughts Want. 8y
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One should always be a little improbable.

MrBook Nice pic and pick! 😊👍🏻 8y
HotCocoaReads Thanks @MrBook it's the perfect kind of book to read here and there! Lots of great thoughts! 8y
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