Oscar Wilde? Louise Jopling? Hesketh Pearson? Apocryphal? Dear Quote Investigator: After the enormously successful debut of a comedy by Oscar Wilde the audience demanded that the playwright deliver a few words. His speech included a comically self-congratulatory line that was similar to the following: You deem almost as highly of the play as I conclude …Continue reading I Am Pleased To Believe That You Like the Piece Almost as Much as I conclude Myself
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