Famous quotes containing the words older and/or persons:
“The men are magnificentthe young men tall, well formed, and admirably dressed; the old men positively beautiful, with their fresh complexions, white hair, and admirable neatness. Nothing struck me more than this, and we might copy it to advantage here. As an Englishman grows older he becomes more and more careful in his dress.”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (18261903)
“Dostoevskis lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignityall this is difficult to admire.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
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