Oscar Wilde Quotes About Fathers

• Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Family, Father

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.233, Penguin

• ...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.

  Oscar Wilde

  Father, Oxford, Two

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.99, Oxford University Press on Demand

• The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Father, Not Good Enough

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.32, Mondial

• The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.

  Oscar Wilde

  Family, Wall, Father

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1861, Delphi Classics

• 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.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mother, Father, Pay

  Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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