Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

At seventy-four I'm getting minor raves on my looks, but I'm caught in the middle. Who knows what seventy-four looks like? Who cares? But if I'd listened to my friends, I could now lie and say I'm eighty-four. For eighty-four, the way I look is spectacular.

When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.

I think there's an interesting contradiction of having a young face and an old soul. There's something funny about it, and it also allows you to reinvent being old.

I'm never overawed by a situation and I think that's because I've always looked several years older than I am. So because people were treating me like I was 40 when I was 29, I've always felt in control of a situation. People used to say, when you're 32, you'll look 32. I'm still waiting for that moment, where my age catches up with my appearance.

Do you think that I am an old man? I could prove to this congregation that I am young; for I could find more girls who would choose me for a husband than can carry any of the young men.

I am in perfect health, and hear it said I look better than ever I did in my life, which is one of those lies one is always glad to hear.

I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.

The fact was I didn't want to look my age, but I didn't want to act the age I wanted to look either. I also wanted to grow old enough to understand that sentence.

I can honestly say I love getting older. Then again, I never put my glasses on before looking in the mirror.

I've never had Botox. But I like people to imagine I have.

Well, you know, I'm much older than I look.

I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, 'Dang, she looks good for her age!'

It's not good for comedy to be like, 'Thanks for liking me.' Being popular is poison.

I personally feel like I do look 28 - I never have seen anyone who told me I looked over 35.

Time flies, though, huh? But I feel young. And do you know how I stay feeling young, ladies and gentlemen? I'll share my secret with you: I live in a senior citizen retirement community.

The trouble with the young people today is that it is they who are young.

People like to say, "You're only as old as you feel," but it isn't true. It's just something old people say to make themselves feel good about their age. You're as old as you are.

I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.

Most famous people get younger and younger. I sometimes ask myself that question: 'How come I'm the only person who's getting older?'

Everyone always says it's a blessing to look a lot younger than my age, but sometimes I just want to look my real age.

I am resolved to grow fat, and look young till forty.

Word has it, they think I'm an old man, and they're not gonna double me. My message is that I'm the baddest for my age bracketest. What I mean by age bracketest is that I came in at 20, I was the baddest 20, and I'm the baddest at 35.

What would you rather be? 52 and look 52, or 52 and look like a 28-year-old lizard?

I was in my peak physical condition when I was about like, uh... one. Oh God, I looked good, young and fresh! You wouldn't know me now if you'd seen me when I was one, you know? I even looked good for my age. People would come up to me and go, what are you, zero? And I'd go, no, I'm one over here!

I don't want to be younger, I just want to look it.