Age Quote by Paul Theroux

“A gentleman sitting in spectacles before an old ledger, and writing down pitiful remembrances of his own condition, is a quaint and ridiculous object.”

— William Makepeace Thackeray

The writer, unlike his non-writing adult friend, has no predisposed outlook; he seldom observes deliberately. He sees what he didnot intend to see; he…

— Elizabeth Bowen

One who thinks and reflects develops his foresight and vision.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

If I had been Terry Pratchett the farmer, or Terry Pratchett the dentist, nobody would have paid any attention if I had announced I…

— Terry Pratchett

It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit.

— Roger L'Estrange

“Short-sighted people are amorous. Sometimes just a stronger pair of glasses will cure an amorous man; and if someone had the power to imagine…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I, too, like to read. Once a month, I go to the local branch. For myself, I pick a novel and, for Bruno, with…

— Nicole Krauss

“Though never losing his taste for seclusion, he developed a talent for getting on with people in all walks of life, and those who…

— Anthony Stevens

The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers that the…

— Jean Genet

When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered, wrinkled, and…

— Oscar Wilde

“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

Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He…

— Albert Einstein