Wilde & Bierce и др

The ineffable dunce has nothing to say and says it with a liberal embellishment of bad delivery, embroidering it with reasonless vulgarities of attitude, gesture and attire. - Bierce on Wilde

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[19] Оскар Уайльд
Король выпендрежников. Ему нечего было сказать, и он это сказал.
- Амброз Бирс. The San Francisco News Letter, 1898

не знаю, где они это нашли. в источнике сказано:

This littlest and looniest of a brotherhood of simpletons, whom the wicket wits of London, haling from his obscurity, have crowned and crucified as King of the Cranks, has accepted the distinction in stupid good faith and our foolish people take him at his word.