Lord Alfred Douglas

Lord Alfred Douglas

Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 1870 – 20 March 1945), also known as Bosie Douglas, was an English poet and journalist, and a lover of Oscar Wilde. On converting to Catholicism in 1911, he repudiated homosexuality, and in a Catholic magazine, Plain English, expressed openly antisemitic and reactionary views, but rejected the policies of Nazi Germany.

Quotes

• I am the Love that dare not speak its name.
  • "Two Loves", in The Chameleon (December 1894), widely misattributed to Wilde

• The placid pug that paces in the park.
  • "The Placid Pug", in The Placid Pug, and Other Rhymes, by the Belgian Hare (London, 1906)
  • See: Elizabeth Knowles, The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 7th ed. (2009), History of the Dictionary, p. xiv