Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see.

I was beautiful. Now, because I am old, I take no shame in so saying.

I've only got one wrinkle, and I'm sitting on it.

Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga.

I had a great time in my youth and I still feel youthful. I've no desire to look as though I'm in my 20s.

If I were afraid of wrinkles, I'd probably be hiding in a cupboard, because I have a lot of them.

I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.

It's more fun to look at an old picture of me than it is to look at a new one sometimes. Although, I still wear a dress pretty well.

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

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I'll still be fly.

One of the few advantages to not being beautiful is that one usually gets better-looking as one gets older; I am, in fact, at this very moment, gaining my looks.

John Travolta is getting old, despite what his hair is trying to tell us.

Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.

See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands.

Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.

So what if my face is falling apart? I don't give a damn. Anyway, it gives me character. Everyone thinks that they can stay pretty forever but some come out of Beverly Hills surgeries looking scary to me.

My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.

There is a slow-growing beauty which only comes to perfection in old age.... I have seen sweeter smiles on a lip of seventy than I ever saw on a lip of seventeen. There is the beauty of youth, and there is also the beauty of holiness—a beauty much more seldom met; and more frequently found in the arm-chair by the fire, with grandchildren around its knee, than in the ball-room or the promenade.

At my age, I don’t need to be a sexy bundle of muscles, thank you very much.

It well becomes a man who is no longer young to forget that he ever was.

You don’t have to look like an old fuddy-duddy, but I believe it was Chanel who said, ‘Nothing makes a woman look so old as trying desperately hard to look young’. I think you can be attractive at any age. I think trying to look like a spring chicken when you’re not makes you look ridiculous.

It is perhaps life's greatest accomplishment to live to old age, maintaining one's wits, one's sense of humor, one's health, and one's charm.

Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.

So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature: This is old age; but then thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change To withered weak and grey.