1. wilde - Adjective
2. Wilde - Proper noun
wilde
Obsolete spelling of wild
wilde
wild, savage
Wilde
A surname from Middle English. A variant of Wild.
When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde. Camille Paglia
Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right! Al Lewis
The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork - Oscar Wilde. Oscar Wilde
I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort. E. M. Forster
Oscar Wilde always makes me smile - with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is possible to be both sarcastic, even cynical, but deeply compassionate. Just seeing the cover of one of Wilde's books in a bookshop makes me smile. Orhan Pamuk
Wilde was not a great poet nor a consummate prose writer. He was a very astute Irishman who encompassed in epigrams an esthetic credo which others before him scattered in the space of long pages. He was an enfant terrible. Jorge Luis Borges