quotes about Old Woman
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I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.
-- Alexander Pushkin -
There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch; as loving or as horrible.
-- Anne Enright -
An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb
-- Chinua Achebe -
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Yes, you are nosy. You're a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all.
-- Diana Wynne Jones -
an old woman ... is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself can't get rid of her.
-- Fanny Burney -
Old women can see through walls.
-- Federico Garcia LorcaSource : "The House of Bernarda Alba" by Federico Garcia Lorca, Act II, (l. 597), 1936.
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The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.
-- George Sand -
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You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.
-- Mitch Albom -
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Nearly everyone could be undone by an old woman's displeasure.
-- Victor LaValleSource : Victor LaValle (2012). “The Devil in Silver: A Novel”, p.34, Spiegel & Grau
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Pretended to see nothing in the old woman's taunts. Very hard to imagine nothingness.
-- Georg EbersSource : Georg Ebers “The Historical Romances of Georg Ebers”, Library of Alexandria