Youth Quotes

I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free; and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! ~ Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte "I don't think, sir, you have a right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience." ~ Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte "To win back my youth, Gerald, there is nothing I wouldn't do—except take exercise, get up early, or be a useful member of the community." ~ A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age. ~ Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old. ~ A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin She was now forty years of age, childless, and with that inordinate passion for pleasure which is the secret of remaining young. ~ Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by Oscar Wilde "You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you." ~ Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown. ~ The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie Cheerfulness and content are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of youthful looks, depend upon it. ~ Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens Youth is like spring, an overpraised season. ~ The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler