Old Men Forget
Old Men Forget is a
1953 autobiography by
Duff Cooper, Viscount Norwich, detailing his
Victorian childhood,
Edwardian youth, and work in literature and politics. The title is taken from a famous speech by the King in
William Shakespeare's
Henry V: "Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot/But he'll remember with advantages/What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,/Familiar in his mouth as household words,/Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,/Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,/Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd."