"There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going."

-- J. B. Priestley

#Respect Quotes #Age Quotes #Youth Quotes

“I'm interested in why people compromise when they shouldn't. It comes back to what V's about in a sense. We've all got ideals, but given the right circumstances, we'll forget about them and put them behind us. I'm very interested in why people do that.”
“I think that rather being overly-friendly at first, having a cold first impression and slowly making them realize that I'm not that cold is better.”
“The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.”
“Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.”

Source : "Diamond in the Rough: More Fun Adventures with Abby Diamond". Book by Kristie Smith-Armand, July 2010.
“All life goes in a circle, around and around, you started at one place, and then came right back to it again.”
“for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge”
“I've had plenty of good times and have settled peacefully into quite a boring existence that I love. I had enough fireworks and chaos. It is a blissful boring life, believe me.”
“These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.”

You may also like:

Alfred Hitchcock
Film director
Charlie Chaplin
Actor
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright
Graham Greene
Writer
Groucho Marx
Comedian
Hugh Walpole
Novelist
Jacquetta Hawkes
Archaeologist
Joseph Priestley
Philosopher
W. Somerset Maugham
Playwright