Marguerite Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

“There's something wrong with the young who can't be fascinated by a genius.”

— Julian Barnes

“The nobility of age is that it conceals from the young the futility of effort.”

— Yeo-tze

“You see Miss Gertrude is a genius. And a genius is a genius. So what if no one understands a word she writes. Some…

— Jonah Winter

“And Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation.”

— Oscar Wilde

“The young can be very lovely, but the faces of the old can be truly beautiful.”

— Jennifer Worth

“Intellectually, true beauty is very difficult to distinguish a priori from the bloom of youth.”

— André Breton

“...she immediately became the person they believed her to be: a peculiar, impatient girl, attractive enough yet too old and odd for the village…

— Daphne Kalotay

“From all I have heard, geniuses are people to be heartily disliked.”

— Agatha Christie

“The most foolish description of the young is that they are rebellious. The truth is that they are a fellowship of cowards.”

— Manu Joseph

“Humility wisely conceals the finest intellects of any age.”

— I. Forgget

“And isn’t there something a little sad about youth and beauty in any circumstances?”

— John Wyndham

“His beauty was notable even in a province where the lack of it is more exceptional in a young man.”

— Tennessee Williams