Oscar Wilde and Myself

Alfred Douglas

I soon perceived that he said quite half of everything he had to say with his tongue in his cheek

Compared with the average man-about-town he shone, and compared with the average “man of genius” he scintillated.

I soon perceived that he said quite half of everything he had to say with his tongue in his cheek and that one should not really take him seriously, because his only aim in conversation was not to say what he believed, but to say what he supposed to be witty, profound, whimsical or brilliant at the moment.