Rolf Johnson fears the effects of a thoroughbred market ‘bubble’
Who hasn’t heard, used even, Oscar Wilde’s dig, voiced by Lord Darlington in ‘Lady Windermere’s Fan’, at cynics?
Darlington accuses Wilde’s ‘cynical’ effete character (the author himself?) Cecil Graham of “knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing.” Graham is allowed the rejoinder: “And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything and doesn’t know the market price of ...