Quotes About Old

Are all men bad? Oh, all of them, my dear, all of them, without any exception. And they never grow any better. Men become old, but they never become good.

I lost one illusion last night. I thought I had no heart. I find I have, and a heart doesn't suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn't go with modern dress. It makes one look old. And it spoils one's career at critical moments.

I don't know if you have ever seen one of those old maps where they mark a spot with a cross and put 'Here be dragons' or 'Keep ye eye skinned for hippogriffs', but I had always felt that some such kindly warning might well have been given to pedestrians and traffic with regard to this Steeple Bumpleigh.

Bertie, he said, I want your advice. Carry on. At least, not your advice, because that wouldn't be much good to anybody. I mean, you're a pretty consummate old ass, aren't you? Not that I want to hurt your feelings of course. No, no, I see that.

Bertie,' he said, 'I want your advice.' 'Carry on.' 'At least, not your advice, because that wouldn't be much good to anybody. I mean, you're a pretty consummate old ass, aren't you? Not that I want to hurt your feelings, of course.

Tea, pa! said Charlotte, starting at the word like the old war-horse who hears the bugle; and we got down to it.

He looked at me like Lillian Gish coming out of a swoon. Is this Bertie Wooster talking? he said, pained. Yes, it jolly well is! Bertie, old man, said Bingo, patting me gently here and there, reflect! We were at school - Oh, all right!

there was only one thing to be done. I went straight back to my room, dug out the cummerbund, and draped it round the old tum. I turned round and Jeeves shied like a startled mustang.

Bertie,' he said, 'I want your advice.' 'Carry on.' 'At least, not your advice, because that wouldn't be much good to anybody. I mean, you're a pretty consummate old ass, aren't you? Not that I want to hurt your feelings, of course.' 'No, no, I see that.

He was a long, thin old gentleman in his middle seventies with a faraway unseeing look in his eye, not unlike that which a dead halibut on a fishmonger's slab gives the pedestrian as he passes.

Un seul mot, usé, mais qui brille comme une vieille pièce de monnaie: merci!

She had the look of a mother or an older sister now—the old feminine disapproval of the destructive play of little boys and men.

Es el conflicto entre Apolo y Dioniso, un famoso dilema mitológico. La vieja batalla entre mente y corazón, que rara vez quieren lo mismo.

A medida que el viejo funicular ascendía lentamente la pendiente vertiginosa, Edmond Kirsch contemplaba la cumbre irregular de la montaña.

was at the core of primeval beliefs. Its names are as old as history itself … Dharmakaya, Tao, Brahman.

Quality wine, Scotch, and coffee had been the three irreplaceable commodities after the death of Old Earth.

This is why we Hunt, woman. Look at yourself in the mirror! Do you want to die an old woman just because you're tired of using them? Acch!" Willi stood and turned his back on us.

We were simply waiting for the last day. We were telling the old, bad jokes, biding our time until the end came.

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.

Age is just a number. Who cares how old the girl is that I date?

We wander through old streets, and pause before the age stricken houses; and, strange to say, the magic past lights them up.

I've got cheekier with age. You can get away with murder when you're 71 years old. People just think I'm a silly old fool.

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.

Do not be deceived by the outward appearance of age or youth - a new pitcher may be full of good, old wine, while an old one may be totally empty.