“Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty.”
Carl Van Vechten
Peter Whiffle: His Life and Works
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
Similar quotes
“Thenardier had just passed his fiftieth birthday; Madame Thenardier was approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman; so that there existed a balance of age between husband and wife.”
Victor Hugo
Les Misérables
“...a city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.”
Nelson Algren
Chicago: City on the Make
“There are books which one should not attempt before having passed the age of forty.”
Marguerite Yourcenar
Memoirs of Hadrian
“She said she was approaching forty, and I couldn't help wondering from what direction. ”
Bob Hope
“Should I eat first or accuse the Master of the City of murder? Choices, choices. -Anita”
Laurell K. Hamilton