Quotes by : Anthony Powell

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

An exceedingly well-informed report,' said the General. 'You have given yourself the trouble to go into....

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

Trapnel wanted, among other things, to be a writer, a dandy, a lover, a comrade, an eccentric, a sage,....

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

Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into....

In any case the friendships of later life, in contrast wih those negotiated before thirty, are apt to....

I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those....

There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you.

   Susan poured herself out some more wine. She said:   "You're nice. You must come and see me....