Quotes About Youth

He belonged to that inarticulate order of young Englishmen who dislike any form of emotion, and who find it peculiarly hard to explain their mental processes in words.

I suppose, like most young people nowadays, boredom is what you dread most in the world, and yet, I can assure you, there are worse things.

Young men are sadly degenerate nowadays.

She used to say:"The young people think the old people are fools, but the old people KNOW the young people are fools!

They have a genius, young ladies, for getting into various kinds of trouble and difficulty.

What do most people mean when they say that ? So young. Something innocent, something appealing, something helpless. But youth is not that ! Youth is crude, youth is strong, youth is powerful-yes, and cruel ! And one thing more-youth is vulnerable.' Hercule Poirot

Nobody over fifty has got any sense.

Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.

You are young still. Naturally, one tries this, that and the other, but what one eventually settles down into is the life one prefers.

The young have very curious views on unselfishness.

There is something about the defencelessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless--so sure. So generous and so demanding.

It is the courage, the insistence, the ruthless force of youth.

When youth begins to pass, fun isn't fun any longer.

Nothing is more dangerous than the well-meant efforts of the younger generation to assist you and show their sympathy.

Who was there to guard youth from pain and death - youth who could not, who had never been able to, guard itself? Did they know too little? Or was it that they knew too much, and therefore thought they knew it all?

Don't be offended because I think you're young. Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.

How absurd to call youth the time of happiness—youth, the time of greatest vulnerability!

They knew, none better, the havoc caused by a good-looking young man to the hearts of adolescent girls.

I had a lovely childhood in Ireland, riding, hunting, and a great big, bare, draughty house with lots and lots of sun in it. If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you, can they? It was afterwards—when I grew up—that things seemed always to go wrong.

Don't pretend to come out of the ark, Len. You know very well that an attractive young woman with an elderly husband is a kind of gift from heaven to a young man.

There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time. Shakespeare is ruined for most people by having been made to learn it at school; you should see Shakespeare as it was written to be seen, played on the stage. There you can appreciate it quite young, long before you take in the beauty of the words and of the poetry.

Maybe it is because I am an old man, but I find, Mr. Poirot, that there is something about the defencelessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless—so sure. So generous and so demanding.

We do all these things when we are young. The poise, the savoir faire , it comes later.

And they had no idea that they and many others were automatically pronounced deadly dull solely on that account. Only by the young of course, but then, they would have thought indulgently, young people knew nothing about life. Poor dears, they were always worrying about examinations, or their sex life, or buying some extraordinary clothes, or doing some extraordinary things to their hair to make them more noticeable.