Orhan Pamuk Quotes

I have the sort of round face that you complain about when you're younger, but which serves you well as you get older.

I've always looked old for my age.

Age is just a number, and I know so many women who look fabulous at 40, 50 and 60 so it doesn't scare me. It's inevitable - I will get older, and the wrinkles will come, but I'm not that bothered.

Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty.

When I was in my teens and 20s, I looked to older Italian and French women. They always seemed so incredibly attractive to me because of their confidence. And because their faces had evidence of age: lines, dark circles, and half-lidded eyes, it made that confidence so rebellious. And that was incredibly attractive to me.

Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.

I've known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you're more beautiful now than then. Rather than your face as a young woman, I prefer your face as it is now. Ravaged.

Were they beautiful? We were all beautiful. We were in our twenties.

She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven.

Being eye candy always was a short-term career, and here's the reason. The world finds young women more attractive than old women because youthfulness signals fertility.

All I want is beautiful. I mean, I like grey hair, I love wrinkles. But this is me.

I wonder if it is harder for a woman who was beautiful to get older or a woman who was never looked at.

I was always the girl who had that baby face.

My mother lived till she was 95 and never had a line on her face or a frown line. She was beautiful.

Why should 20-year-olds only be considered sexy? I think we get better with age.

When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.

I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully.

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see.

Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.

This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty.

A sex symbol? A symbol of sex? I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering. I'm 59, now, so I think I'm possibly past my sell-by date. I think I am.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.