"An Irish gentleman is someone who can play the bagpipes but won’t."
— Oscar Wilde

January 1, 1970

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Oscar Wilde
Original Language: English

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First ascribed to Wilde by The Boston Globe in 1991. The joke probably appeared for the first time in 1917, when The Atchison Weekly Globe attributed it to a local man named Frank Fiest.