David Ogilvy Quotes

I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.

I've been told I'm an old soul, but I'm only 25. I have the old with the new in me, and my house reflects that.

The one cool thing with getting older is that you can actively choose to just be an eccentric.

I think ageing suits me because I was born old, like Spencer Tracy or Dolly the Sheep.

Beauty with character ages better than perfection.

Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own; this house was the architectural equivalent of an old gentleman in a worn dressing-gown and torn slippers, who got up and went to bed at odd times of day, and who kept up a continual conversation with friends no one else could see.

Uniqueness is wasted on youth. Like fine wine or a solid flossing habit, you'll be grateful for it when you're older.

There is a slow-growing beauty which only comes to perfection in old age.... I have seen sweeter smiles on a lip of seventy than I ever saw on a lip of seventeen. There is the beauty of youth, and there is also the beauty of holiness—a beauty much more seldom met; and more frequently found in the arm-chair by the fire, with grandchildren around its knee, than in the ball-room or the promenade.

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly.

My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want.

I'm not a glamour boy, and I never get the girl. I like to play old people, because there's something to them. Did you ever see anybody under 30 with any real character or expression in his face?

I've always played way older than my age. It's the experience behind my eyes or something.

Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

It is a pledge that senility has not the last say in everything.

Oh, I'm kooky.

For young people, it doesn't matter so much, but when you're older, less is definitely more - too much make-up can give you the 'eccentric Aunt Sally' look!

Tom Brokaw was never young.

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

I've always wanted to be older, as I think it's all right to be a little bit odd when you're out of your 20s.

You know like it has its own personality, its own character.

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

I am in the prime of my senility.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.