The poor fellow had never been cut out to be a villain. - T. H. White

We have had a good time while we were young, but it is in the nature of Time to fly.

[Kay] was not at all an unpleasant person really, but clever, quick, proud, passionate and ambitious. He was one of those people who would be neither a follower nor a leader, but
only an aspiring heart, impatient in the failing body which imprisoned it.

They (the enemy) pottered off through Idiot's Utterly, High Hiccough, Malpaquet Middling and Mome.