Dogmatic bishops and the wisdom of Wilde

AT 66 years of age I have belatedly begun reading Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and, lo and behold, on page seven I read: “A bishop keeps on saying at the age of 80 what he was told to say when he was a boy of 18, and as a natural consequence he always looks absolutely delightful.”

Just as apt today as in Wilde’s late 19th century, don’t you think?

John Boyd