Peter Hitchens Quotes

Youth is wasted on the young.

To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

When you're 20, you think you know a lot more than you do.

They always say 'youth is wasted on the young' - there's something to that.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

I don't mind being older. I'm proud of my age. I've achieved a lot. It's the same thing with Mick and the Stones. They should be revered and respected. Isn't it strange that now we're living longer we have so much less respect for old age? Perhaps it's a less valuable commodity?

We are a very youth-driven culture, and I don't really know why because wisdom tends to come with more years, not fewer.

Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.

I feel more and more at ease, because I think the older I get, the less pressure there is. People say, 'Well, he's not cutting edge because he's not in his twenties, so he's not expected to be.'

I feel old and vulnerable. I now realise that I knew nothing and know nothing, but back when my career was beginning, I thought I was a man when, in fact, I was a dewy-eyed boy who'd not seen an avocado or eaten a tomato.

I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways.

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.

There are definitely elements of experience and stuff that someone who's my age wouldn't have. But there are also things that I can do that other people wouldn't necessarily be able to.

A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.

Adults are obsolete children.

Maybe it's that I'm naive, but I don't think of myself as an age.

I think age is just something written down on a piece of paper. I mean, you come across 20-year-olds who are like old people sometimes. I've never taken much account of age throughout my life - my own or anyone else's.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

We're rewarding either the reality or the appearance of youth, which is why you have all these people in their fifties trying to act like they're seventeen. You know, it's great to be young. Be young. By all means, be young. But always remember that youth is also kinda dumb, and doesn't know a lot yet.

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

You can be young and still have views and opinions.

Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.