“Six months at most after they get here, these young people — and they are mostly young who come — have lost every idea they had, except flirtation and temperature.”
Settembrini on the Magic Mountain Society, in Ch. 5
The Magic Mountain (1924)
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“Now young people can get insurance for as little as $50 a month, less than the cost of gym shoes.”
During appearance on "Tonight Show" (21 February 2014) http://washingtonexaminer.com/michelle-obama-young-people-are-knuckleheads/article/2544377
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Rzeczpospolita interview (March 2005)
“All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation…”
Statement quoted by Ernest Hemingway in A Moveable Feast (1964) Ch. 3, it had also provided the epigraph to The Sun Also Rises (1926).
Context: All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation... You have no respect for anything. You drink yourselves to death.
“Most blacks are happy, except those who have had other ideas pushed into their ears.”
As cited in Dictionary of South African Quotations, Jennifer Crwys-Williams, Penguin Books 1994, p. 53
The Philosophy of Dress, The New-York Tribune, 1885. For an analysis see Fashion a Form of Ugliness http://www.oscarwildeinamerica.org/quotations/fashion-a-form-of-ugliness.html
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest