Quote of the Day (Oscar Wilde, on His Unusual Mother)

“Come home with me. I want to introduce you to my mother. We have founded a society for the suppression of virtue.”—Trinity College undergrad—and future playwright—Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), inviting a classmate to a Merrion Square (Dublin) salon held by his only slightly less flamboyant mother, the poet Speranza Wilde, quoted in Hesketh Pearson, The Life of Oscar Wilde (1919)