pardon this, codger!

Thu Oct 7 14:21:12 UTC 1999

    I believe that this was Oscar Wilde.  I've seen the quote recently,
and I'm reasonably sure it was attributed to him...

    Johanna

Excerpts from mail: 7-Oct-99 Re: pardon this, codger! by Kim & Rima
McKinzey at SLIP
> With all this talk about offensiveness, can anyone tell me who said, in
> regard to definitions, that a gentleman is someone who never offends
> accidentally?