Nancy Mitford Quotes

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.

This country has a complex about age. It's unbelievable. If you're over thirty, you've had it in this country.

Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.

I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.

You'll find people who rib you about their age are petrified about getting old. It doesn't bother me.

I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

To be a former PGA Tour player typically means you're about 75 years old. They just don't stop.

Growing old on screen is not for the faint of heart.

Sure, I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.

There is a sort of indifference to the problem of old age. Indifference in the face of a revolution in longevity.

I don't mind being older. I'm proud of my age. I've achieved a lot. It's the same thing with Mick and the Stones. They should be revered and respected. Isn't it strange that now we're living longer we have so much less respect for old age? Perhaps it's a less valuable commodity?

If you're 90 and look good in a mini-skirt, go for it. What is 'age appropriate'? Such nonsense. My mother lived to 106, so what's middle-age? Seventy is the new 50.

Any woman will tell you after the menopause, nobody whistle at her, well - that's just the beginning. As you get older people don't want you at their parties, we all are prejudiced about old people.

Unfortunately, because aging is so common and natural, we tend to think of it as destiny or something we should accept.

I don't want to be the oldest anything in America. Sorry about that.

Women shouldn't have to apologise for their age or growing old. It is just inevitable.

In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.

Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.

I think, being an actress, you know that you're getting old. I'm 44. I mean, an agent said when I turned 40, "It won't get better."

I didn't realize the age thing until I got hired and everybody was telling me I was f - -ing old.

Don't look at me like I've gotten old or something like that.

Longevity in my family's been pretty good. And my grandparents were pretty spry at their age, so I figured I'd probably stay skinny and fairly agile. I used to do old men all the time in sketches. And there used to be an organization called the Gray Panthers. And they would send me, oh, terrible letters about making fun of old people. And I would just always say, "I'm playing the old person I intend to become!"

I didn't fear old age. I was just becoming increasingly aware of the fact that the only people who said old age was beautiful were usually twenty-three years old.