Oscar Wilde Quotes on Family
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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
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Mrs. Arbuthnot: [quoting Lord Illingworth from the first act] Children love their parents. Eventually they come to judge them. Rarely do they forgive them.
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Ah! That must be Aunt Augusta. Only relatives, or creditors, ever ring in that Wagnerian manner.
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To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.
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The home seems to me to be the proper sphere for the man. And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not?
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I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.
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Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.
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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. Mothers are different. Mothers are darlings.