Faces Quote by Anonymous

Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.

— Ernest Hemingway

“There he was. The infant Titus. His eyes were open but he was quite still. The puckered-up face of the newly-born child, old as…

— Mervyn Peake

“He was sitting in the midst of a children's party at Harold's Cross. His silent watchful manner had grown upon him and he took…

— James Joyce

“Nevertheless, this anger was inside him—I believe constantly. Like the house that was well ordered and yet falling apart from within, the man himself…

— paul auster

“would sometimes say, that if life were made what it might be, by good government and good education, it would be worth having: but…

— Christopher Hitchens

He was old and wise, which meant tired and disappointed...

— Anonymous

“This susceptibility to impressions had been his undoing, no doubt. Still at his age he had, like a boy or a girl even, these…

— Virginia Woolf

“The causes of his embitterment were many, remote and near. He was angry with himself for being young and the prey of restless foolish…

— James Joyce

His face was sad and stern because of the doom that was laid on him, and yet hope dwelt ever in the depths of…

— Anonymous

Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements pall with…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

He had a cringing manner, but a very harsh voice; and his blandest smiles were so extremely forbidding, that to have had his company…

— Charles Dickens

The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace.

— Ezra Pound