Quotes About Maturity

And to discuss them with one's own parents would have been quite impossible: horizontal divisions were far stronger in those days than vertical ones. Perhaps the psychologists were right, and the "child mind"—that convenient abstraction—matured earlier nowadays. On the other hand, she herself had outgrown dolls by the age of nine, and here was Judy, at eleven, buying a new one.

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.

A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.

Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.

Time did not compose her.

We must live and learn.

What is passable in youth is detestable in later age

I should think he must be rather a dressy man for his time of life. Such a number of looking-glasses! Oh Lord! There is not getting away from one's self

I pay very little regard, said Mrs. Grant, to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Her mind was less difficult to develop.

for what after all is Youth and Beauty?

If my children are silly, I must hope to be always sensible of it.

Which makes his good manners the more valuable. The older a person grows, Harriet, the more important it is that their manners should not be bad; the more glaring and disgusting any loudness, or coarseness, or awkwardness becomes. What is passable in youth is detestable in later age.

He became what he ought to be: useful to his father, steady and quiet, and not living merely for himself.

Mas o orgulho, onde quer que haja uma verdadeira superioridade intelectual, o orgulho estará sempre sob uma boa orientação.

Well, we must live and learn.

Emma is spoiled by being the cleverest of her family. At ten years old, she had the misfortune of being able to answer questions which puzzled her sister at seventeen.

Painful recollections will intrude which cannot, which ought not, to be repelled.

Seguramente si nuestro afecto es recíproco, nuestros corazones se entenderán. No somos un par de chiquillos para guardar una irritada reserva, ser mal dirigidos por la inadvertencia de algún momento o jugar como con un fantasma con nuestra propia felicidad.

had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older—the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

Life does not cease when you are old, it only suffers a rich change. You go on loving, only your love, instead of a burning, fiery furnace, is the mellow glow of an autumn sun.

She always says she doesn't believe women should get married before the age of thirty-five...she says women change so much in their twenties, they can't possibly know who they are, and the choices they make before the age of thirty are rarely good ones.