Quotes by : Anthony Powell

He [Widmerpool] moistened his lips, though scarcely perceptibly. I thought his mixture of secretiveness....

One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with....

Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them.

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....

Esteem for the army - never in this country regarded, in the continental manner, as a popular expression....

One’s capacity for hearing about ghastly doings lessens with age.

When people really hate one another, the tension within them can sometimes make itself felt throughout....

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.