Fifties Quote by Mario Vargas Llosa

“He was a square, pale-faced man of almost forty, and had the appearance of having outlived every emotion to which humanity is subject.”

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

“He might be fifty years old, and would have looked young for his age, had not constant work hardened his features, and given him…

— Anthony Trollope

“He was fiercely beautiful in the way some young males are, as if their whole being were being lived through their eyes, and their…

— Eloisa James

“He was a man of between sixty and seventy. From a little distance he had the bland aspect of a philanthropist. His slightly bald…

— Agatha Christie

“Everywhere he looked was a nut, and it was all a sensible young gentleman like himself could do to maintain his perspective amid so…

— Joseph Heller

“He had good, open features and a confident air; his blue eyes were wide and watchful, but something about them seemed to hint that…

— Sarah Brazytis

“Strikingly tall, broad, a thick head of silky chestnut hair, olive skin and beautiful almond shaped eyes. His was a strong face, masculine, powerful.…

— Samantha Young

As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set apart from…

— Sherwood Anderson

“the outlines of his figure were indistinct—but his features were the features of a deity; for the mantle of the night, and of the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“And his brow was lofty with thought, and his eye wild with care; and, in the few furrows upon his cheek I read the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“But, as always happens after death, his face had grown handsomer, more dignified—more distinguished, in short, than it had ever been in life.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“For in the latter days of that passionate life that lay now so far behind him, the conception of a free and equal manhood…

— H.G. Wells