youth is a marvelous garment

you shall above all things be glad and young
For if you're young,whatever life you wear

it will become you;and if you are glad
whatever's living will yourself become.

Like when you're young, you figure you're unique. I was young.

I had youth, beauty, two advantages conferred by chance, and of which we are as proud as if they were hard-won.

How happy he who crowns in shades like these,
A youth of labour with an age of ease.

It was good to be alive; it was better to be young; it was best of all to be in love.

When I was younger, I enjoyed being strong, and I loved it when my heart was very strong, but I think it was also about submitting to the cultural idea that if you're a 22-year-old woman, you have to look a certain way. I'm not into that anymore. But I do appreciate it when my clothes fit.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. I

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to his circumstance.

He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he knows.

[On wearing clothes made by the Yves Saint Laurent brand] You are more aware of what you wear. You feel totally different. When you live in public, it gives you an attitude that helps you be confident with people you don’t know.

Obviously, it's great that has happened, and great it was a young audience — terrific [...] That's the nature of my profession. The young, I don't expect them to know about my past, but if, through Game of Thrones, they discover me, that's good.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

It used to be said that by a certain age a man had the face that he deserved. Nowadays, he has the face he can afford.