...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. — 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
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I have no ambition to play the part of a mother, and why should I interfere with her illusions? I find it… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“My father told me to go to bed an hour ago. I don't see why I shouldn't give you the same advice.… — 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
“Marriage is a matter for common sense." "But women who have common sense are so curiously plain, father, aren't they? Of course… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose. — 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
American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past. — 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
Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The Little Ship Have your forgotten the ship love I made as a childish toy, When you were a little girl love,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“In the square below,’ said the Happy Prince, ‘there stands a little match-girl. She has let her matches fall in the gutter,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“For what are called criminals nowadays are not criminals at all. Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime. That… — 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
“There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“In these modern days to be vulgar, illiterate, common and vicious, seems to give a man a marvellous infinity of rights that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I am told, on excellent authority, that her father keeps an American dry-goods store," said Sir Thomas Burdon,” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“O crowned by God with thorns and pain! Mother of Christ! O mystic wife! my heart is weary of this life And… — 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
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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 Image
