“Oscar Wilde: 'I wish I had said that'
Whistler: 'You will, Oscar, you will.”

Source: posthumous published, L.C. Ingleby, Oscar Wilde (1907). This is a paraphrased version of the quotation that has come to be accepted. For a chronology of sources see Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/09/05/oscar-will/.

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