GWENDOLEN (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.
Leonard Smithers quotes
View All Authors View SourcesGWENDOLEN. 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
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.
— Oscar Wilde (1895)
The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People