Anthony Powell Quotes

We will never forget what he did for us. - Anthony Powell

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. - Anthony Powell

Self-love seems so often unrequited. - Anthony Powell

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years. - Anthony Powell

Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years. - Anthony Powell

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. - Anthony Powell

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. - Anthony Powell

Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. - Anthony Powell

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on. - Anthony Powell

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