Age Quote by Dorothy Parker

Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.

— Dorothy Parker

[On hearing that Clare Boothe Luce was invariably kind to her inferiors:] And where does she find them?

— Dorothy Parker

“She was one of those women who are never handsome till they are old, and she had had the wisdom to embrace the beauty…

— George Eliot

“I began to understand what bound Pearl to their simple mystery because i felt the same connection. in front of us, all around us,…

— Belinda Jeffrey

“She was about forty: In her youth She had been a Beauty; But her charms had been upon that large scale which can but…

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

“Could beauty be caught and hurt they had done her to death with their sneers in ages and ages past, could beauty be sacrificed…

— H.D

They stood brow to brow, brown to white, black to black, he supporting her elbows, she playing her limp light fingers over his collarbone,…

— Vladimir Mayakovsky

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“A merchant, who had three daughters, was once setting out upon a journey; but before he went he asked each daughter what gift he…

— Jacob Grimm

“But she feared time itself... the dwindling of life; how year by year her share was sliced; how, little the margin that remained was…

— Virginia Woolf

“There was hardly a touch of earth in her love for Clare. To her sublime trustfulness he was all that goodness could be—knew all…

— Thomas Hardy

“Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea market. She is young…

— J. Ruth Gendler