"It is so comic to hear oneself called……" — Alice James

"It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!"

— Alice James

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18 Quotes by Alice James

Alice James has 18 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the…
How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make…
Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?
If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling…
What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.
Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.
It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial…
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less…
I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.
You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions…

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More Age Quotes

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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become… — Giorgio Armani
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.… — Brooks Atkinson
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood

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