“Let us agree, if you please, that in this one circumstance Mr. Wilde is wrong,” I said.
Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the Show|Robert W. Chambers|February 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“Impossible,” began the other, but was silenced by a sort of bark from Mr. Wilde.
Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the Show|Robert W. Chambers|February 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Then Mr. Wilde told Vance he could go; and he went, shambling like an outcast of the slums.
Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the Show|Robert W. Chambers|February 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Mr. Wilde clambered to the floor and unlocking the cabinet, took a long square box from the first shelf.
Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the Show|Robert W. Chambers|February 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
As for me, when at last Mr. Wilde had finished, and pointing to me, cried, “The cousin of the King!”
Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the Show|Robert W. Chambers|February 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Even so artificial a writer as Wilde had not to labour to be witty.
The Art of Letters|Robert Lynd
But we shall do well to discover what it was beside that envy that made the word applicable to Wilde.
Oscar Wilde|Arthur Ransome
Wilde, he said, was well-known as a dramatic author and generally, as a literary man of unusual attainments.
The Trial of Oscar Wilde|Anonymous
If there ever have been such people, they ought, as Wilde says, to be thoroughly ashamed of themselves.
Suspended Judgments|John Cowper Powys
Mr. Wilde had climbed into his high chair, and, after studying my face, picked up a dog's-eared ledger and opened it.
The King in Yellow|Robert W. Chambers
British Dictionary definitions for Wilde
Wilde
/ (waɪld) /
noun
Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills). 1854–1900, Irish writer and wit, famous for such plays as Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) and The Importance of being Earnest (1895). The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) is a macabre novel about a hedonist and The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898) relates to his experiences in prison while serving a two-year sentence for homosexuality