Old man Quote by Guy de Maupassant

There was a patient look on the old man's face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody with whom…

— Sarah Orne Jewett

As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set apart from…

— Sherwood Anderson

He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enough of the world…

— Willa Sibert Cather

“Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met…

— Joseph Heller

“He had no particular character, having always depended on his position in society to give him position among men.”

— D.H. Lawrence

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

— Oscar Wilde

“...they all were, in the grip of a huge fantasy: the idea that men would not be judged by who they once were and…

— Salman Rushdie

“Resigned that those surrounding him had no idea who he was, and invariably kind to his social and intellectual inferiors, he sometimes felt doubly…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Harold walked with these strangers and listened. He judged no one, although as the day wore on, and time and places began to melt,…

— Rachel Joyce

“He wasn't a gentleman and there was no telling what men would do when they weren't gentlemen. There was no standard to judge them…

— Margaret Mitchell

“He felt useless and degraded, as if he no longer lived for others but for himself alone.”

— Bernard Werber