Faded Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

— J. B. Priestley

She was "a woman of uncertain age.

— Marcel Proust

She is one of those ladies who is more beautiful at sixty than she could possibly have been at twenty. (how I hope someone…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.

— Bram Stoker

“Although Pulcheria Alexandrovna was forty-three, she still showed traces of her former beauty and seemed much younger than her years. This is generally true…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure…

— Anonymous

“She appeared to be ageless the type that would continue, unchanging, until she was an old woman when she would suddenly become senile and…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“Her face was round and rosy, with a healthful downy softness, suggestive of a ripe peach. Her hair, partially silvered by age, was parted…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Society tended to dismiss and ignore older women. Big mistake. Never underestimate a woman due to her age. Every word made me love and…

— HelenKay Dimon

“Her happiness, sometimes almost more than she could bear, renewed her beauty. Just before she married, beginning to lose her first freshness, she had…

— W Somerset Maugham