Contemporary-romance Quote by Elle Lothlorien

“Has anyone ever told you that you use twenty words when five will do?”

— L.H. Cosway

“At twenty the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many.”

— Rudyard Kipling

“Nothing you think at twenty-five is so.”

— Linda Ellerbee

“20. Fucking leaves everything as it is. Fucking may in no way interfere with the actual use of language. For it cannot give it…

— Maggie Nelson

“Twenty-six,” you said, before I could ask you.Everyone was gathered around, or anyway they were around us, swirling like loud, bad surf. The crowd…

— Daniel Handler

“You mustn't judge Australia by the Australians.”

— Dame Edna Everage

“...at twenty-one or twenty-two so many things appear solid and permanent and terrible which forty sees are nothing but disappearing miasma. Forty can't tell…

— Booth Tarkington

When you are challenging the young, they can come back at you with language of tremendous power and they are no respecters of sacred…

— Tony Abbott

“I know you’re almost forty, look almost thirty, think you’re just over twenty and act as though you’re barely ten.”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

“Youth thinks too damn much.”

— Nora Roberts

They (the youth of Australia) are out there clamouring in all forms of voice, and they are not so much hedging us older Australians…

— Peter Cosgrove