Oscar Wilde, as quoted by Richard A. Kaye in "The path to Rome: investigating the deathbed conversion of Oscar Wilde," Times literary supplement no. 6386 (August 22, 2025), 8 (7-8). Richard Ellmann adds "alone", citing an undated letter of Reginald Turner to T. H. Bell "in Bell's unpublished MS. on Wilde (Clark)" (Oscar Wilde (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988, 583 and 621). I have followed this trail no further.
Thursday, September 18, 2025
A wilde faith
"The Catholic church is for saints and sinners [alone]. For respectable people, the Anglican church will do."
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