Jack: I have lost both my parents.
Lady Bracknell: To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Leonard Smithers quotes
View All Authors View SourcesGWENDOLEN (glibly). Ah! that is clearly a metaphysical speculation, and like most metaphysical speculations has very little reference at all to the actual facts of real life as we know them.
— Oscar Wilde (1895)
The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
GWENDOLEN. Do you allude to me, Miss Cardew, as an entanglement? You are presumptuous.
— Oscar Wilde (1895)
The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People