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Oscar Wilde Quotes about Children

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Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

Oscar Wilde
Children, Years, Advice

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

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

In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.

Oscar Wilde
Love, Strong, Children
Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.250, Wordsworth Editions

Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.

Oscar Wilde
Beautiful, Education, Children

Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

Oscar Wilde
Children, Giving, Records
Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.159, Courier Corporation

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

A burnt child loves the fire.

Oscar Wilde
Children, Fire, Children Love
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.454, Oxford University Press on Demand

When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.

Oscar Wilde
Girl, Prayer, Children
Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories”, p.17, Courier Corporation

Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.

Oscar Wilde
Girl, Education, Children
Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.11, University of Chicago Press

The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.

Oscar Wilde
Children, Mean, Men
Oscar Wilde (1988). “The complete plays”, Methuen Drama

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