Family Quotes

“How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!”

“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”

“If it be you that stirs these daughters' heartsAgainst their father, fool me not so muchTo bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger,And let not women's weapons, water drops,Stain my man's cheeks.”

“Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest That best becomes the table.”

“My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. To you I am bound for life and education. My life and education both do learn me How to respect you. You are the lord of my duty, I am hitherto your daughter. But here’s my husband, And so much duty as my mother showed To you, preferring you before her father, So much I challenge that I may profess Due to the Moor my lord.”

“Tis often seenAdoption strives with nature; and choice breedsA native slip to us from foreign lands.”

“Good old grandsire ... we shall be joyful of thy company.”

“Tis a happy thing To be the father unto many sons.”

“Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in theeCalls back the lovely April of her prime...”

“The Dear father Would with his daughter speak, commands her service; Are they inform'd of this?”

“Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.”

“I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.”

“When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.”

“Is there no pity sitting in the clouds That sees into the bottom of my grief? O sweet my mother, cast me not away! Delay this marriage for a month, a week, Or if you do not, make the bridal bed In that dim monument where Tybalt lies.”

“Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.”

“My father's wit, and my mother's tongue, assist me!”

“My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors.”

“To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons.”

“In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.”

“What thing, in honor, had my father lost,That need to be revived and breathed in me?”

“Men are what their mothers made them.”

“She is your treasure, she must have a husband;I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day,And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell.”

“The poodle [Rufus] ate in the dining room with the rest of the [Churchill] family. A cloth was laid for him on the Persian carpet beside the head of the household, and no one else ate until the butler had served Rufus's meal.”

“It is of no account; after all, the old bird does not fly far from his nest.”

“The one I love is the son of the one I hate! -Juliet p. 75”