Quote by Leslie Charteris

“But perhaps I took the serious-minded too seriously and overestimated the maturity of the mature.”

— Witold Gombrowicz

“You flatter yourself...you're too young for me to take you seriously.”

— Sandra Kitt

“I refuse to grow younger. I came by my decrepitude the hard way and I propose to enjoy it.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

“When we were growing up, he was very critical. I was told things on a daily basis, like I was dumb and lazy.”

— Alcoholics Anonymous

“Just because I was too young, it doesn't mean I cannot do something.”

— Alanda Kariza

“He had a high opinion of his own insight, a weakness excusable in him as he was fifty, an age at which a clever…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Like many people who have nothing to do, he was very resentful of any claims on his time.”

— William S. Burroughs

“He didn't shut up when people wanted him to, he made them listen - and then he listened in return. He refused to take…

— E. Lockhart

“...and that there were many things grow-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves...”

— Nick Joaquín

“he was as good as any young man, or better because young men were no longer what they used to be.”

— Chinua Achebe

“And he was not old enough to talk and say nothing at the same time.”

— William Faulkner

“Don’t take everything so seriously, especially yourself. It isn’t what you think, anyway.”

— Art Hochberg