Young Man Quotes

562 Young Man quotes by 456 unique authors

Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): "What's the matter, sexy? Don't you like dehydrated fruit? — Quentin Crisp
...That he'd seen...two people, a young man and a woman, sitting on invisible furniture with their feet up, reading books and eating chocolates. — Megan Whalen Turner
When he was a young man he prayed constantly for chastity; but years later he realized that while his lips had been saying 'Oh Lord,… — C.S. Lewis
Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a… — Epictetus
My blood will only buy you that fool's regard. I will pay a high price for you to be respected by a churl. Nothing bought… — Robin Hobb
Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly?… — Oscar Wilde
How can a young man like to wear a beard? — Dodie Smith
Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women. — Leo Tolstoy
When they took a young man into Tellson's London house, they hid him somewhere till he was old. They kept him in a dark place,… — Charles Dickens
You are old Father William,' the young man said, 'and your hair has become very white; and yet you incessantly stand on your head-do you… — Lewis Carroll
well, young man," the judge began, what it biols down to this if the court so desires and if you belive that your home setting… — Dave Pelzer
The young man called the waiter and paid. Then he got up and said to the girl: 'We're going.' Where to?' The girl feigned surprise.… — Milan Kundera
He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.... — Jane Austen
I think it is one of the most extraordinary elections, a turning point for our country and for the world. That remarkable young man [Barack… — David McCullough
As a young man I was scornful about the supernatural but as I have got older, the sharp line that divided the credible from the… — Colin Wilson
Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared… — Rudyard Kipling
There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire. — Neil Gaiman
...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know. — Wendell Berry
Young man, nature is not frightening, it's people who are frightening! You just need to get to know nature and it will become friendly. This… — Gao Xingjian
No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible as it would… — Chuck Palahniuk
My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance,… — Franz Kafka
He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and found that the… — Neal Stephenson
The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land foreign; whereas the… — Brian Aldiss
I meet a third man he's an old man he trips in the street he falls and I help him up, walk him to the… — James Frey
So she stood naked in front of the young man and at this moment stopped playing the game. — Milan Kundera

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