[T]here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing. — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“That was when I began to suspect that being in love might be a complicated affair.” — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“BEING in love is a complicated matter; although anyone who is prepared to pretend that love is a simple, straightforward business is… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“This is something of a paradox in that the transgression—crime perhaps—of America has been to reject Classicism for Romanticism. The national distaste… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“...Even when you have ceased to love someone, that does not necessarily bring an indifference to a past shared together. Besides, though… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“At the same time, the notion that he was entirely actuated by ‘rational’ motives was also no doubt far from the truth.… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“In place of those sounds some cats were quarrelling, or making love, in the gardens running the length of the square. I” — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Selflove… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“If certain individuals fall in love from motives of convenience, they can be contrasted with plenty of others in whom passion seems… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“Like everything that's any good, it has about twenty different meanings.” — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“I have absolutely no histrionic talent, none at all, a constitutional handicap in almost all undertakings of life;but then, after all, plenty of actors… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years. — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“Her expression was oafish, but it was on the whole this quality that gave her face a certain retentive efficacy. She had the look… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“Enormous simplifications were possibly necessary to carry a deeper truth than lay on the surface of a mass of unsorted detail.” — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“I hate anything superficial. But I will take the book and look at it, and tell you what I think of the writing.” — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“It is rather an occasion, darling,’ said Moreland, vexed at these objections. ‘After all, I am noted among composers for the smallness of my… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“There seemed no particular object in avoiding banality from the start, as the evening showed every sign of developing into a banal one.” — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Dinner at the Huntercombes possessed only two dramatic features: the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
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