Anthony Powell Quotes

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

"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."

"Books do furnish a room."

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

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

"Self-love seems so often unrequited."

"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."

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

"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."