Anthony Powell Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

13 Famous Quotes by Anthony Powell
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“Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.”
Age Quotes
“He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Selflove seems so often unrequited.”
Conceit Quotes
“Self-love seems so often unrequited.”
Vanity Quotes
“Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“An immediate, overpowering, almost mystic sense of relief took shape within me. I felt suddenly sure everything was going to be all right. This was something quite apart from even the most cursory reflection upon strategic implications involved.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Books do furnish a room.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Self-love seems so often unrequited.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled by them and lumbering gloomily down vistas of triteness. With a sort of heavy-fisted dexterity the mutually adapted emotions of each of them became synchronized, until the unavoidable anti-climax was at hand.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“[His wife shuddered thinking of the terrifying tide of corpses floating in the flood.] I couldn't go back to that, ... Some of them could be my family.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“We will never forget what he did for us.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“It's more about faith and how God speaks to you and how it happens. I don't think I've worked on a play with such an even keel.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
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