Affection Quote by Malcolm Muggeridge

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

— Pindar

The public, as a whole, finds reassurance in longevity, and, after the necessary interlude of reaction, is disposed to recognize extreme old age as…

— Vita Sackville-West

Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect; that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom and the…

— Margaret Deland

“It's not a love of the old as such. It's simply that the process of aging or deterioration provides the necessary detachment - or…

— Susan Sontag

A lady of a 'certain age', which means Certainly aged.

— Lord Byron

There's nothing better than a woman who has aged wonderfully.

— Pat McGrath

Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as in their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay.

— Robert Boyle

Let's face it: There used to be something tragic about even the most beautiful forty-two-year-old woman. With half her life still ahead of her,…

— Tom Junod

Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the age. If…

— Eva Figes

“She appeared to be ageless the type that would continue, unchanging, until she was an old woman when she would suddenly become senile and…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“white-haired little old ladies (LOLs for short) are due a certain amount of respect, just on the basis of longevity, if nothing else,”

— J.A. Jance

Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.

— Samuel Richardson