Noel Coward Quotes

I think I was born aged about 86.

One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.

Age for me is just a number.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

Few people know how to be old.

I've said it once and I'll say it a a hundred times, I'm forty-four years old.

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

Old age is the only thing that lives up to its reputation.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

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

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

Old age is just a record of one's whole life.

If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.

I've finally become an old guy.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.