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Decrepit Quotes

Graham Chapman quote: "Dressing up as decrepit old ladies, and even decrepit young..."
Dressing up as decrepit old ladies, and even decrepit young ladies, was one of our staples. Graham Chapman
The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If I can live to be decrepit e nough, I shall be a saint. Charles Fort
Margaret Weis quote: "Why you decrepit old mage! You couldn't turn water into ice in..."
Why you decrepit old mage! You couldn't turn water into ice in the dead of winter! Margaret Weis
Jerome K. Jerome quote: "I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I..."
I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck. Jerome K. Jerome
Neal Stephenson quote: "Software development, like professional sports, has a way of..."
Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit. Neal Stephenson
It is a splendid thing to think that the woman you really love will never grow old to you. Through the wrinkles of time, through the mask of years, if you really love her, you will always see the face you love and won. And a woman who really loves a man does not see that he grows old; he is not decrepit to her; she always sees the same gallant gentleman who won her hand and heart. Robert Green Ingersoll
George Eliot quote: "If a man has a capacity for great thoughts, he is likely to..."
If a man has a capacity for great thoughts, he is likely to overtake them before he is decrepit. George Eliot
I felt that the decrepit state of these once magnificent buildings, with their broken gutters, walls blackened by rainwater, crumbling plaster revealing the coarse masonry beneath it, windows boarded up or clad with corrugated iron, precisely reflected my own state of mind... W. G. Sebald
The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals, afraid of their own independence; lackeys of thought, enemies of the person and freedom, decrepit preachers of carrion and rot! What do they have: gray heads, the golden mean, the most abject and philistine giftlessness, envious equality, equality without personal dignity, equality as understood by a lackey or a Frenchman of the year ninety-three...And scoundrells, above all, scoundrels, scoundrels everywhere! Fyodor Dostoevsky
At the street corner, a one-storey house built of freestone, but repulsively decrepit and filthy, seemed to command the entrance, like a gaol. And here, indeed, lived La Mchain, like a vigilant proprietess, ever on the watch, exploiting in person her little population of starving tenants. Emile Zola
...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Gerald Griffin quote: "Just because I was almost 62, I did not feel decrepit and felt..."
Just because I was almost 62, I did not feel decrepit and felt I wasn't finished being a soldier yet. Gerald Griffin
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. George Eliot
Gerrit Smith quote: "There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well..."
There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous. Gerrit Smith

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