Oscar Wilde Quotes About Parents

• To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Family, Sarcastic

  The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895)

• The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Children, Parenting, Fortune Cookie

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.172, Wordsworth Editions

• Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Family, Witty, Time

  'A Woman of No Importance' (1893) act 2

• Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they mature, they forgive their parents, especially when they discover they are also human.

  Oscar Wilde

  Children, Parent, Forgiving

• Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fashion, Children, Parent

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.19, Oscar Wilde

• Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

  Oscar Wilde

  Time, Mistake, Parent

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.441, Oxford University Press

• American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

  Oscar Wilde

  Girl, Clever, Past

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.197, Oxford University Press on Demand

• Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

  Oscar Wilde

  Parent, Sin, Hunger

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.50, Oscar Wilde

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