Quotes by : Anthony Powell

Some of the best of us are quite unambitious.

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....

Entering the front door, you were at once assailed by a nightmare of cheerlessness and squalor, all the....

Bring a torch, if you've got one. It's as dark as hell and stinks of something far worse than cheese.....

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

It was [Hugh's] omnipresent fear that some woman might be foisted on him who would turn out to be an....

...in those days children were rather out of fashion.

She scarcely spoke at all and might have been one of those huge dolls which, when inclined backwards,....

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