✽ ‘Given sufficient notice, one can always be spontaneous.’
If this saying reminds you of Oscar Wilde, it’s entirely appropriate. With this aphorism, Robert Eddison has won the fourth Wilde Wit Competition run by the Oscar Wilde Society, in partnership with The Oldie and The Chap. Oldie columnist Gyles Brandreth is the Society’s honorary president.
Eddison’s quote topped the list of more than 300 entries sent to the Society. Contestants vied with each other to produce Wildean aphorisms, both amusing and profound.
The shortlist was chosen by the Oscar Wilde Society Committee and guest judge Darcy Alexander Corstorphine, who won the first three years. He was invited NOT to
