Oscar Wilde on Family
Browse 10 quotations attributed to Oscar Wilde, catalogued under family, with dates where available.
This page displays 10 quotations attributed to Oscar Wilde and filed under "family" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Oscar Wilde, entry #169556: "To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune ... to lose both seems like carelessness."
Attributed to Oscar Wilde, entry #79392: "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."
10 Quotes by Oscar Wilde on Family
"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune ... to lose both seems like carelessness."
"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."
"Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. Mothers are different. Mothers are darlings."
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them."
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
"Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime."
"Heaven is a despotism. I shall be at home there."
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"There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them, or above each other—by language, which is the parent, and not the child, of thought."