Old man Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien

“His shaggy homespun overcoat was swinging open, stuffed with long envelopes and periodicals which protruded from the pockets. He looked no older; perhaps a…

— Anthony Powell

“His head was large, globular and oily; it sweated in all weathers; and his large round hat, set upon it sideways, looked like a…

— James Joyce

“His black hat sat on his head with a careful, placed expression and his face had a fragile look as if it might have…

— Flannery O'Connor

“A silhouette was striding down the center of the road, heading for the alley we’d just vacated. Lean, tall, a long black coat rippling…

— Julie Kagawa

“Only the silver head of his cane blazed with reflected fire, held aloft above the grave like a medieval necromancer summoning spirits from the…

— Lauren Willig

“The leader had a beard and was wearing a caftan that looked as if it had been sewn by elves on hash.”

— Margaret Atwood

“He still wore, in the warming barracks, a muskrat cap with earlaps. Under it his eyes were gray as agates, as sudden as an…

— Wallace Stegner

“The old man with the white beard had gone quite mad. He ripped his robes from his body and ran naked through the forest…

— Jennifer M. Baldwin

“He wore his weariness like an elegant cloak, but it was still there.”

— Leigh Bardugo

“He was a broad-faced man who looked good in hats. Who”

— Alice McDermott

“He’s not a man made for affection. His face is pale and ghostly. Thirty-five and so old, so tired. A scar twists his upper…

— Pierce Brown

“beard framing a face that had started to show his age, weathered and lined from years”

— Richard Allibone