The Public Is Wonderfully Tolerant — Oscar Wilde Quote Mug

The idea came to you in the shower. By the time you’d told three people, it was already “unrealistic.”

“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
— Oscar Wilde
“The Critic as Artist,” Intentions, 1891. We check every line against a primary source.

In 1895, the public that had filled his theaters watched him go to prison.

Drink up. Then say the unpopular thing first.

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