“ one doesn’t want people after fifty; one doesn’t want to go on telling women they are pretty ”
 Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1925). copy citation

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“And that perhaps was the reason why, when the ship actually sailed, he felt an extraordinary relief, wanted nothing so much as to be alone; was annoyed to find all her little attentions—cigars, notes, a rug for the voyage—in his cabin. Everyone if they were honest would say the same; one doesn’t want people after fifty; one doesn’t want to go on telling women they are pretty; that’s what most men of fifty would say, Peter Walsh thought, if they were honest. But then these astonishing accesses of emotion—bursting into tears this morning, what was all that about? What could Clarissa have thought of him?” source