Quotes by : Anthony Powell

Speaking about time’s relentless passage, Powell’s narrator compares certain stages of experience....

What a shabby lot of highbrows have turned out tonight," he said, when he saw us. "It makes me ashamed....

Books do furnish a room.

The potential biographies of those who die young possess the mystic dignity of a headless statue, the....

There is always a real and an imaginary person you are in love with; sometimes you love one best, sometimes....

Feeling unable to maintain this detachment of attitude towards human- and, in especial, matrimonial-....

Daydreams of wealth or women must have given Carolo that faraway look which never left him; sad and silent,....

There is a strong disposition in youth, from which some individuals never escape, to suppose that everyone....

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.