Judged Quote by Hilary Mantel

“In his student days he was known for a sharp slanderous tongue, for irreverance to his seniors, for drinking and gaming for high stakes.…

— Hilary Mantel

“I wouldn’t want people to judge me by what I did in my twenties.”

— James S.A. Corey

“We are foolish and sentimental and melodramatic at twenty-five, but if we weren’t perhaps we should be less wise at fifty.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“By the time I twenty, I was just like everyone else. I still am”

— Jeremy Robert Johnson

“Most people would take me for over forty.”

— Osamu Dazai

“Forty seemed about right, and it occurred to me that it's too bad for a fella to die at forty, a real shame. It's…

— Stephen King

“Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the…

— Neal Stephenson

“He couldn't be more than twenty-five, but he obviously lived enough to have things to regret. He looked like he'd taken a long fall…

— Jonathan Lethem

“A man's judged by what he is and not what he was.”

— Jack Caldwell

“The cliché goes that at twenty a person has the face that God gave him, but at forty he has the face he has…

— Andrew Davidson

“Life was long, unless you died, and he didn’t intend to spend the next sixty years talking about the last twenty-two.”

— Chad Harbach

“He was forty-eight — an age at which permanence of habits begins to be predictable.”

— James Hilton