William Cobbett Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• Praise the child, and you make love to the mother.

  William Cobbett

  Mother, Children, Making Love

  William Cobbett (1829). “Advice to Young Men, and, incidentally, to Young Women, in the middle and higher ranks of life. In a series of letters, etc”, p.181

• To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous.

  William Cobbett

  Children, Men, Support

  William Cobbett, John Morgan Cobbett, Anne Cobbett, James Paul Cobbett (1835). “Selections from Cobbett's Political Works: Being a Complete Abridgement of the 100 Volumes which Comprise the Writings of "Porcupine" and the "Weekly Political Register." With Notes, Historical and Explanatory”, p.400

• I was a countryman and a father before I was a writer on political subjects... Born and bred up in the sweet air myself, I was resolved that my children should be bred up in it too.

  William Cobbett

  Sweet, Children, Father

  "The Autobiography of William Cobbett: The Progress of a Plough-boy to a Seat in Parliament". Book by William Cobbett, 1933.

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