Enid Bagnold Quotes

I'm conscious of age, but I'm more suspicious of it than anything.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.

I know one day I'll be considered too old.

We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

I'm an old man of 73, and I've been around a long time. If I don't know something by now, I probably never will.

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Randolph," he said, "were you ever as young as me?" And Randolph said: "I was never so old.

The only thing that I'm sure of is I don't know, but I know that positivity works.

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

I'm not aware of too many things, I know what I know, if you know what I mean.

I tell myself that I know you, and then when I think about it, I realize that I don't.

Didn't we, like our grandchildren, begin with a childhood we thought would never end? Now, all of a sudden, I'm older than my parents were when I thought they were old.

The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

To tell you the truth, the older I get, the less I know. I keep meeting people, both older and younger, who seem to have accrued so much more knowledge or expertise or certainty about who they are and the jobs they do. I just marvel at it.

How did you know you're alive, unless you'd once been dead?

Life was a fairy-tale, then, it is a tragedy now. When I was 43 and John Hay 41 he said life was a tragedy after 40, and I disputed it. Three years ago he asked me to testify again: I counted my graves, and there was nothing for me to say. I am old; I recognize it but I don't realize it. I wonder if a person ever really ceases to feel young - I mean, for a whole day at a time.

... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.