Judith Martin Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers.

  Judith Martin

  Funny, Mother, Children

  Judith Martin (2002). “Miss Manners' Guide to Rearing Perfect Children”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

• A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful.

  Judith Martin

  Children, Parent, Female

  Judith Martin (1982). “Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior”, Scribner

• The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, no one wants to live any other way.

  Judith Martin

  Inspirational, Children, Growing Up

• Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.

  Judith Martin

  Children, Parent, Tone

  Judith Martin (1982). “Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior”, Scribner

• In its natural state, the child tells the literal truth because it is too naive to think of anything else. Blurting out the complete truth is considered adorable in the young, right smack up to the moment that the child says, 'Mommy, is this the fat lady you can't stand?

  Judith Martin

  Children, Honesty, Thinking

  Judith Martin (2002). “Miss Manners' Guide to Rearing Perfect Children”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

• Why bring children into a world where no one writes letters?

  Judith Martin

  Children, Writing, World

  Judith Martin (2011). “Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior (Freshly Updated)”, p.51, W. W. Norton & Company

• Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without a comment is a wonderful social grace ... Children who have the habit of constantly correcting should be stopped before they grow up to drive spouses and everyone else crazy by interrupting stories to say, 'No, dear -- it was Tuesday, not Wednesday.

  Judith Martin

  Children, Growing Up, Crazy

• If you put together all the ingredients that naturally attract children - sex, violence, revenge, spectacle and vigorous noise - what you have is grand opera.

  Judith Martin

  Sex, Children, Revenge

  "Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior". Book by Judith Martin, 1982.

• The only way to enjoy the fun of catching people behaving disgustingly is to have children. One has to keep having them, however, because it is incorrect to correct grown people, even if you have grown them yourself.

  Judith Martin

  Children, Fun, People

  Judith Martin (1982). “Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior”, Scribner

• Yes, etiquette is hypocritical. Yes, it does inhibit children - if you're lucky. But the idea that it's elitist and irrelevant is like saying language is elitist and irrelevant.

  Judith Martin

  Children, Ideas, Doe

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