Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Pretty child! I was like that once. Now I know that all men are monsters.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“When I say that I am convinced of these things I speak with too much pride. Far off, like a perfect pearl,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“And the child smiled on the Giant, and said to him, 'You let me play once in your garden, to-day you shall… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
