Reading David Hare's The Judas Kiss, the story of

Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), the Irish playwright and poet whose ill-advised decision to pursue a controversial libel suit wrecked his health and ended his life. The plays of this dramatist, perhaps wittiest person in the history of the English language, are still (justifiably) popular today, as is his poetry (see The Ballad of Reading Goal) and his bon mots, ie. "Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination".

(Image: poems.net.)