Age Quote by Mary Lee Settle

It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.

— Edith Wharton

“As she sat opposite to her glass, relieving her head from its garniture of false hair, she acknowledged to herself that age was coming…

— Anthony Trollope

She was astonished, and at the same time she knew. There were many things in life like that. You couldn’t imagine it, and then…

— Ann Brashares

“I hoped she wouldn’t realize how spectacular she was until she was twenty-five and safely past letting it ruin her.”

— Joshilyn Jackson

She was thirty-five, and she did not look a minute younger.

— Cherie Priest

“As she drove, she surprised herself with a sudden laugh. How blind, infinitely blind, she had been to think that men’s inability to see…

— Ray Smith

“In her experience, it was those first sixty seconds, from the moment she flashed her P.I. license to the end of her pitch, that…

— Laura Lippman

She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure…

— Anonymous

She had been dragged in the most humiliating of all dusts, the dust reserved for older women who let themselves be approached, on amorous…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“She felt very young; at the same time unspeakably aged”

— Virginia Woolf

“All the overpowering blinding, bewildering, first effects of strong surprise were over with her. Still, however, she had enough to feel! It was agitation,…

— Jane Austen

Had it taken her this long to discover that she lacked some simple mental trick that everyone else had, a mechanism so ordinary that…

— Ian Mcewan