What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Youth is described as a time when a person is not yet ready to be fully seen or judged by others.
- In plain terms
- Young people are just not ready to be seen clearly by the world yet.
- What can you take from it?
- Youth is a hidden preparation phase before one is fit for public view.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- When are we ready to be seen?
- Should young people be hidden from judgment?
Another view
It implies youth is inherently incomplete or imperfect.
More from Evelyn Waugh
What a man enjoys about a woman's clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them.
Permalink to quote #74 When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
Permalink to quote #76 We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.
Permalink to quote #73
Related quotes
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
Vincent Willem Van GoghVincent Willem Van Gogh quote #50 In your teens and your 20s, you're immortal, you're untouchable. It's only later that you begin to realize you are mortal. (2004)
Johnny DeppJohnny Depp quote #1 Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.
Carol BurnettCarol Burnett quote #1