The Wildes Quotes

“Don’t let’s go through the whole rigmarole,” he says. “The one where I explain in tones of abiding patience that certain things come of being a public figure, one of which is to be claimed as a friend. Sometimes by people called Bosie. No harm ever comes of it.”
― Louis Bayard, The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts

“Bankers require no help. Indeed, they are the reason that poets do.”
― Louis Bayard, The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts