Adults Quote by Evelyn Waugh

Children are overbearing, supercilious, passionate, envious, inquisitive, egotistical, idle, fickle, timid, intemperate, liars, and dissemblers; they laugh and weep easily, are excessive in their…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“I was talking about children that have not been properly house-trained. Left to their own impulses and indulged by doting or careless parents almost…

— Patrick O'Brian

Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad.

— John Ray

Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child I had…

— Alice Munro

Unlike most other children, - especially unlike those of to-day - who are eager to become men and women as speedily as possible, I…

— Pierre Loti

Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.

— Anonymous

When we reverence anything in the mature, it is their virtues or their wisdom, and this is an easy matter. But we reverence the…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“We do our sulking lovers the greatest possible favor when we are able to regard their tantrums as we would those of an infant.…

— Alain de Botton

Children are wonderful, and they add to my whole life.

— Ziggy Marley

This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence.

— Ian Mcewan

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.…

— Anonymous