Re: oscar wilde on socialism?

["Frederick Emrich, Editor, info-commons.org" <editor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't have any source, but the quote I recall (and one that sounds much
more like Wilde) was "the problem with Socialism is that it takes up too
many spare evenings."  I'd love to hear the exact quote, of course.

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----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Hoover <HooverM@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <PEN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 2:13 PM
Subject: [PEN-L] oscar wilde on socialism?


> below was posted to another list...  michael hoover
>
> The statement "The trouble with Socialism is too many meetings," is
> frequently attributed to Oscar Wilde. A Google search has turned up
> several attributions of the statement, but no formal citations. It
> does not appear in my editions of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
> or Bergen Evans' Dictionary of Quotations. Does anyone have a firm
> citation to where (or if) he wrote or said it?  Thanks.