Old Men Forget is a 1953 autobiography by Duff Cooper, Viscount Norwich, detailing his Victorian childhood, Edwardian youth, and work in literature and politics.
The title is taken from a famous speech by the King in William Shakespeare's Henry V: "Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot/But he'll remember with advantages/What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,/Familiar in his mouth as household words,/Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,/Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,/Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd."
Famous quotes containing the words men and/or forget:
“Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone’s mouth a little while.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“The old forget the grief,
Hack of the cough, the hanging albatross,
Cast back the bone of youth....”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)