Old Man Quotes

662 Old Man quotes by 516 unique authors

Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be a prevenient courage… — Marilynne Robinson
The barman sidled toward them out of a back room. He was a grump-looking old man with a great deal of a long gray hair… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Mum said earlier what a lovely dress you’re wearing.” Beryl’s eyebrows wriggled like two tiny tapeworms. “This?” she said. “But I’ve had this for years.”… — Derek Landy
Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? - Lady Macbeth — William Shakespeare
What a fuss people make about fidelity!" exclaimed Lord Henry. "Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to… — Oscar Wilde
I might look like a honey-eyed schoolgirl on the outside, in my skirt with its regulation four-inches-above-the-knee hem. But I'll rip those tassels off your… — Meg Cabot
You are very clever,' said the old man shyly. 'I would like to eat your brains, one day,' For some reason the books of etiquette… — Terry Pratchett
An old man dies, a little girl lives. Fair trade. — Frank Miller
...there began to come to her a first dim realization of God's humility. Rejected by the proud in His own right by what humble means… — Elizabeth Goudge
They sped by a pack of sea lions lounging on the docks, and she swore she saw an old homeless guy sitting among them. From… — Rick Riordan
That is a question you have to ask the Old Man of the Moon. — Grace Lin
Which is crueler, an old man's lost memories of a life lived, or a young man's lost memories of the life he meant to live? — Diane Ackerman
Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too? — Ernest Hemingway
So you’re suggesting we take the train up to York, meet a ninety-year-old man, leap on him, and yank out his hair? I’m sure the… — Cassandra Clare
You're a mean old man, Your Grace." "And that is the way it should be." Roial informed. "Mean young men are trivial, and kindly old… — Brandon Sanderson
A woman shaking in fear from demons in her mind, and the old man who loves her more deeply than life itself, crying softly in… — Nicholas Sparks
She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth. — John Green
With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way… — Orson Scott Card
In those fifty, the Old Man made me take religion seriously. I'd never been religious, but he told us that religion is important whether or… — John Green
What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know… — John Green
…It’s hard to appreciate the beauty of a world when one doubts its very validity….But I’ve long since lost all such doubts, Ono,’ he continued.… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Punch a man on the nose, kick an old man downstairs, shoot somebody or any old thing like that, that’s my job. But argue with… — Mikhail Bulgakov
Look... we're getting to be old men, and we've spent our lives looking for the weaknesses in one another's systems. I can see through Eastern… — John le Carre
Never underestimate a backwoods Cajun in a fight, old man. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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