Quotes of: Old-lady Keyword

We’re stars, you know. Different, distant, young and old, but we’re all made of the same stuff. We all shine just as bright as the next.

Five Weeks

Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps, old snuff-boxes, or even to paintings and statues.

The Guermantes Way

I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.

Of Human Bondage

Never try to outdrink a Swede, unless you happen to be a Fin or at least a Russian.

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

I remembered the old doctor, - "It would be interesting for science to watch the mental changes of individuals, on the spot." I felt I was becoming scientifically interesting.

Heart of Darkness

She ran the harder and zagged more erratically, and in the wreckage left from the hurricane the girl misjudged her path and ran straight into the old well. She didn’t even scream.

Hagridden

The past haunts the present in more ways than we think. It certainly scares the living daylights out of ME"~ Old Wrinkly

How to Break a Dragon's Heart

Can I fetch you something, madam? A cup of tea?’ In the old days she’d have been ‘miss’ and he’d have offered her a cocktail.

British Bulldog

Yes, he said, taking her hand. And now I think I finally understand that old expression - a sight for sore eyes.

Blood Captain

The fruit of youth or of the grape, the transitory magic of the brief passage from darkness to darkness - the old illusion that truth and beauty were in some way entwined.

The Beautiful and Damned

Even a foolish old woman like me knows that lazy people don't think for themselves; they only think about themselves.

Blood of the Fold

When you least expect it, you run in to an old friend from school, or the neighbour’s cat, not Mary the Virgin Mother of God.

The Birds That Never Flew

Sometimes you just have to jump in a mud puddle because it's there. Never get so old that you forget about having fun.

Be A Good Human

New things are easier to do than old familiar things when there's going to be a change," Betsy decided profoundly.

Betsy Was a Junior

I invent a reason for the Hertz attendant to start the rental car. I am seventy-five years old: this is not the reason I give.

Blue Nights

He'd gone from sixteen to seventy-five in a matter of seconds, but the old-man smell happened instantly, like boom. Congratulations! You stink!

The Blood of Olympus

Feelings do not grow old along with the body. Feelings form part of a world I don’t know, but it’s a world where there’s no time, so space, no frontiers.

Brida

The eyes were large and gray and in a certain light looked soft, gentle, and even innocent. Then the light would change, the innocence would vanish, and the eyes looked like year-old ice.

Briarpatch

The eyes were larger and gray and in a certain light looked soft, gentle, and even innocent. Then the light would change, the innocence would vanish, and the eyes looked like year-old ice.

Briarpatch

Let him join the men of the past. Her old lovers were ghosts. None of them had survived; none were missed.

The Beautiful Indifference: Stories

My father got a trade union scholarship to Oxford; he lived and breathed politics; he was always watching current-affairs programmes. But I have a five-year-old child's attitude towards the news. Mainly, that it absolutely turns me off.

Jez Butterworth