Henry James Quotes

I suppose it is a gift, being young, but it isn't special. We've all got it, early in life.

Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.

I feel like a young man of 15.

To be young is the only religion.

To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.

youth is a marvelous garment

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

Younger people are generally more adventurous - they're more open, more fun - have you met many guys my age? Guys my age are married or divorced or grumpy, fat and balding.

Youth is the only thing worth having.

If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.

Only to youth will spring be spring.

Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.

Youth is a question of energy.

The older I get, the more fun it is to write young people. It's just a holiday from what is becoming old age, really.

Youth gives a sense of new days dawning bright, going on for ever, and a kind of tamped-down excitement which keeps breaking through even the worst days of poverty, depression and loneliness. But then youth is something which only exists in retrospect; you are barely conscious of it while you have it.

To be young was very heaven!

To be young, really young, takes a very long time.

I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, sir, young men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments in every respect.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful.

Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.

Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it.

Being young is wonderful. But one of the secrets of being a human individual - a mature human individual shall we put it rather grandly - is that you can see this desire in perspective.

It's great to be in a room full of young people...The average age of the Senate, I think, is death.