Age Quote by Evelyn Waugh

“He then represented to himself the human species, as it really is, as a parcel of insects devouring one another on a little atom…

— Voltaire

“I thought humans were or weren't, I didn't know someone could be a bit human. Then what are his other bits?”

— Emma Donoghue

“He was a square, pale-faced man of almost forty, and had the appearance of having outlived every emotion to which humanity is subject.”

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

“He might be fifty years old, and would have looked young for his age, had not constant work hardened his features, and given him…

— Anthony Trollope

“There wasn’t a bit of innocence or purity in him. He was sinful and cynical. Unapologetic. He cared nothing for the world. He just…

— Joanna Chambers

“He was a man in the prime of his life, his fifties...broad forehead, aquiline nose, penetrating gaze, the very soul of rectitude and goodness.”

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“He was extremely thin and was wearing nothing but a pair of rancid-looking grey shorts and a pair of canvas plimsolls which had lost…

— Emma Kennedy

“He used to wonder at the shallow psychology of those who conceive the ego in man as a thing simple, permanent, reliable , and…

— Oscar Wilde

“That was the man's real trouble, not the savage and uncanny civilizations he encountered--he kept forgetting what he had.”

— Colson Whitehead

“He was hungry to learn about things. Unlike most of us, he was the sort of person who insisted on living out his beliefs.”

— Wayne Westerberg

“He was a man of between sixty and seventy. From a little distance he had the bland aspect of a philanthropist. His slightly bald…

— Agatha Christie

“He was glad to be human. For sure, it was a great inconvenience to have to walk on two legs and wear clothes. There…

— Haruki Murakami