10 Oscar Wilde Quotes on Family

Oscar Wilde quotes on family

86. Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

144. Mrs. Arbuthnot: [quoting Lord Illingworth from the first act] Children love their parents. Eventually they come to judge them. Rarely do they forgive them.

148. Ah! That must be Aunt Augusta. Only relatives, or creditors, ever ring in that Wagnerian manner.

149. To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

151. All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

160. 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.

164. 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?

180. I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.

186. Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

189. Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. Mothers are different. Mothers are darlings.