A Quote by Anita Brookner

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

Anita Brookner

Quote Topics

Freedom Teen Ever Sometimes Time Youth

Quote Author

Anita Brookner
English - Novelist
Born: July 16, 1938

Whether it's my age or my misspent youth, sometimes I forget whether I've worked with somebody or not.

Kevin Bacon

In my misspent youth, I was risky.

Jason Statham

As part of my misspent youth, I spent too much time in the sun, and every few months, I have to go and have some basal cell removed from my old craggy features.

John McCain

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.

John McCarthy

To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth.

Herbert Spencer

Somewhere in my callow, misspent youth, I was smart enough to marry my best friend.

Rob Lowe

Time is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it; all our actions are then tinctured with peevishness. The yoke of life is certainly the least oppressive when we carry it with good-humor; and in the shades of rural retirement, when we have once acquired a resolution to pass our hours with economy, sorrowful lamentations on the subject of time misspent and business neglected never torture the mind.

Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.

James Thurber

Don't bemoan your misspent life quite yet. Forgive me for flaunting my experience, but you have no conception of what a misspent life constitutes.

David Mitchell

The younger generation is essentially idealistic. This applies to the Iranian youth as well. In addition, the youth in Iran face certain difficulties... the Iranian youth need more freedom. They are struggling for more freedom and democracy. This commands great respect.

Shirin Ebadi

His golden locks Time hath to silver turned, O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing! His youth 'gainst Time and Age hath ever spurned, But spurned in vain! Youth waneth by increasing.

George Peele

To my son Hugh, in return for the care and sorrow he has caused me all the days of his life, for his dissolute career and his desertion, I do give and bequeath the sum of one thousand dollars and the memory of his misspent youth.

Hallie Erminie Rives

In the course of history no people have ever been given freedom like a present, and if freedom did not cost anything than no people would ever keep it! Freedom has a high price, and men must ever struggle to preserve it.

Adolf Hitler

Youth -- nothing else worth having in the world...and I had youth, the transitory, the fugitive, now, completely and abundantly. Yet what was I going to do with it? Certainly not squander its gold on the commonplace quest for riches and respectability, and then secretly lament the price that had to be paid for these futile ideals. Let those who wish have their respectability -- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous and the romantic.