Jean Webster Quotes

Men are but children of a larger growth.

To me all men are boy-men. I don't know any man that's actually mature.

A lot of actors just don't seem grown up no matter how old they get... just juveniles with grey hair.

as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.

Men are boys in bigger packages.

Dramatic exits are the last refuge of the infantile personality

I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.

I know plenty of adults who act like teenagers.

A guy may wear a suit and have a high-paying job and appear very mature, but essentially, he's a 14-year-old boy.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.

We get older and more sophisticated and a bit cleverer, but certainly boys - and men - are as childish and basic as we ever were.

Some people are boys longer than others.

Most men die many times in their lives. The man we become invariably slaughters the child we once were. His knowledge of the world murders the babe's innocence. from Time Untime by Sherrilyn Kenyon

There is the possibility that humankind can outgrow its infantile tendencies, as I suggested in 'Childhood's End.' But it is amazing how childishly gullible humans are.

It's, like, weird to watch a human being develop.

I've crossed adulthood, and I feel like lots of people are fighting that.

The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.

You understand people better if you look at them-no matter how old or impressive or important they may be-as if they were children. For most men never mature; they simply grow taller.

Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.

I think it's odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was just something children did and that they outgrew it.

I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.

Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.

Sometimes grown ups don't act their right old age

I didn't want to be in a situation where I was broader than the boys, which I was, in the academic world.

I was talking to a businessman, and I said, Don't you think most men are little boys? And he said, I'm no little boy! I make seventy-five thousand dollars a year. And I said, Well, the way I look at it - you just have bigger toys.