Did Oscar Wilde say “To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness”?
SAPIR 861 · QUOTE CHECK
Did Oscar Wilde say “To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness”?
Found word for word. Yes. The text appears in works attributed to Oscar Wilde. Source and location below.
Lady Bracknell. To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. Who was your father? He was evidently a man of some wealth. Was he born in what the Radical papers call the purple of commerce, or did he rise from the ranks of the aristocracy?
The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People — Oscar Wilde, SCENE · ¶225 · Public domain (US), Project Gutenberg #844 · source
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (WLC), CC BY 4.0