children - quotes

Denis Diderot, 1713-1784

was a French author, encyclopedist, and philosopher

All children are essentially criminal.

(Sir) Peter (Alexander) Ustinov, 1921-2004

was an English actor and author

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950

was an Irish dramatist and socialist

The seven deadly sins ... Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven milestones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the milestones are lifted.

Oscar (Fingall O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde, 1854-1900

was an Irish dramatist, novelist, and poet

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

( “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, 1891 )

Henry Ward Beecher, 1813-1887

was an US abolitionist and clergyman

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983

was an American social writer and philosopher

All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.

Henry Ward Beecher, 1813-1887

was an US abolitionist and clergyman

The dog was created especially for children. He is the god of frolic.

(Arthur) Evelyn (St. John) Waugh, 1903-1966

was an English novelist and satirist

Of children as of procreation — the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.

Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936

was a British (Indian-born) author

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

(Sir) Kingsley (William) Amis, 1922-1995

was an English author and humorist

It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.

( “One Fat Englishman”, 1963 )