Bags Quote by Oscar Wilde

“The peasant of early modern France inhabited a world of step-mothers and orphans, of inexorable, unending toil, and of brutal emotions, both raw and…

— Robert Darnton

“The only thing worse than having a family, I discovered, is not having a family. My rejection of bourgeois virtues as mean-spirited and antithetical…

— Theodore Dalrymple

“Customs are formed, and the descendants of men are trapped therein. The generations pass without a chance to weed out the foolish from the…

— Noriko Ogiwara

What our generation failed to learn was the nobility of work. An honest day's labor. The worthiness of the man in the white socks…

— Charlie LeDuff

For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of…

— Hermann Hesse

You have doubtless heard, my dear mother, the misfortune of Madame de Chartres, whose child is born dead. But I would rather have even…

— Marie Antoinette

“...by a young woman of inferior birth, of no importance in the world, and wholly unallied to the family!”

— Jane Austen

“Two things we have no control:The family in which you were born it to and the name you were given at birth.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive to me but had lost all meaning. The sum…

— Leo Tolstoy

“It was true that the elders found everything changing all about them with a precipitation which was leaving them stripped of authority. The girls…

— Gabriel Chevallier

“The world is a cruel mother, a matron of darkness, selfishness, greed, and misery. For most, their time suckling at her breast is naught…

— Ed McDonald

Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.

— Walter Raleigh