Lord Chesterfield Quotes About Old Age

Quotes about: Old Age

• I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Temptation, Feelings, Age

• At any age we must cherish illusions, consolatory or merely pleasant; in youth, they are omnipresent; in old age we must search for them, or even invent them. But with all that, boredom is their natural and inevitable accompaniment.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Boredom, Age, Youth

• All I can say, in answer to this kind queries [of friends] is that I have not the distemper called the Plague; but that I have allthe plagues of old age, and of a shattered carcase.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Health, Age, Answers

• I often wish for the end of the wretched remnant of my life; and that wish is a rational one; but then the innate principle of self-preservation, wisely implanted in our natures, for obvious purposes, opposes that wish, and makes us endeavour to spin out our thread as long as we can, however decayed and rotten it may be.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Death, Self, Long

• Singularity is only pardonable in old age and retirement; I may now be as singular as I please, but you may not.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Retirement, Age, May

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.307, Oxford University Press

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