"When a friend reproached [Thomas Wainewright] with the murder of Helen Abercrombie [his sister-in-law]," fellow aesthete Oscar Wilde recalled, "he shrugged his shoulders and said, 'Yes; it was a dreadful thing to do, but she had very thick ankles.'"
Sources
Oscar Wilde, Pen, Pencil, and Poison, in Guy Philipps, Bad Behaviour
