“One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines.”
Peter Ackroyd book The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde
Page 46.
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983)
“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”
Source: A Woman of No Importance
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