There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.
Children Quotes
A short page with no flagged entries, which is rare. Shakespeare, Robert Louis Stevenson, Suman Pokhrel, Alice Meynell and Isaiah lead. Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads (1798) asks what a simple child that lightly draws its breath and feels its life in every limb should know of death. Goldsmith’s The Traveller (1764) says the sports of children satisfy the child. Byron, in Beppo (1818), complains about them with the line that they always smell of bread and butter.
The sourced entries here are all poems, and every quote page shows the poem’s source and date.
The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime.
Let nothing foul to either eye or ear reach those doors within which dwells a boy.
The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.
Parents deserve reproof when they refuse to benefit their children by severe discipline.
The booby father craves a booby son,
And by Heaven’s blessing thinks himself undone.
She was not really bad at heart,
But only rather rude and wild:
She was an aggravating child.