Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

Le Pen is old; I'm young.

The most significant social pathology of my youth was the generation gap.

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care.

Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.

If you came from Mars and tried to analyse British or American society through novels, you'd think our society was preponderantly full of middle-aged, slightly alcoholic, middle-class, intellectual men, most of whom are divorced from their families and have nothing to do with children.

Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.

Look, not everybody plays well with each other on the playground. I get that, that's politics.

My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along because neither of them was very articulate.

I learned at an early age that using the third person will push some buttons.

Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation.

Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

You know you're old if they have discontinued your blood type.

I never spent much time with people my own age.

It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.

I'm an older generation.

I don't like new bands. I don't want to be one of those pathetic old men in their forties who knows exactly what 18-year-olds are into.

I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age.

I haven't danced since 1973; I'm too old.

Young men preen. Old men scheme.

I'm not of this generation.

Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.

I've dated men my age, younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage.

Retro looking stuff but a lot of these guys doing these shows are my age or younger. I was just disgusted. I hated being around that kind of thing. Not that it affected what I did because when it comes down to it I was doing my own show.

Those old enough to write their memoirs should not comment on contemporary issues.