“Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.”
Source: The Summing Up (1938), p. 290
“It is sometimes said that this is a pleasure-seeking age. Whether it be a pleasure-seeking age or not, I doubt whether it is a pleasure-finding age.”
Recreation (1919)
Context: It is sometimes said that this is a pleasure-seeking age. Whether it be a pleasure-seeking age or not, I doubt whether it is a pleasure-finding age. We are supposed to have great advantages in many ways over our predecessors. There is, on the whole, less poverty and more wealth. There are supposed to be more opportunities for enjoyment: there are moving pictures, motor-cars, and many other things which are now considered means of enjoyment and which our ancestors did not possess, but I do not judge from what I read in the newspapers that there is more content. Indeed, we seem to be living in an age of discontent. It seems to be rather on the increase than otherwise and is a subject of general complaint. If so it is worth while considering what it is that makes people happy, what they can do to make themselves happy, and it is from that point of view that I wish to speak on recreation.
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Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon 20
British Liberal statesman 1862–1933Related quotes
“Crabbed age and youth cannot live together:
Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care”
The Passionate Pilgrim: A Madrigal; there is some doubt about the authorship of this.
“A cultured, sensitive, observant man is a pleasure to be with in any age.”
Source: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 9 (p. 97)
“When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past—”
George Gordon Byron
(1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
The First Kiss of Love http://readytogoebooks.com/LB-FKL44.html, st. 7 (1806).
Context: When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past—
For years fleet away with the wings of the dove—
The dearest remembrance will still be the last,
Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love.
“Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.”
Oscar Wilde
(1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Isaac D'Israeli
(1766–1848) British writer
Source: The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius (1795–1822), Ch. VIII.
“Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.”
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
(1636–1711) French poet and critic
Chaque âge a ses plaisirs, son esprit et ses mœurs.
Canto III, l. 374
The Art of Poetry (1674)
“I seek new perfumes, ampler blossoms, untried pleasures.”
Joris-Karl Huysmans
(1848–1907) French novelist and art critic
Source: Against Nature
