Quote by Anthony Powell Download Open image ““Like everything that's any good, it has about twenty different meanings.”” — Anthony Powell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“There's nothing like good and bad; It depends on the one who defines it.” — Deepak Sunil Copy Share Image
“If you like everything, that’s basically just saying that you don’t really like anything.” — Morgan Matson Copy Share Image
“It's not decent to be good at everything. Three or four things at the most. Even that is pushing the bounds of good taste.” — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“There is nothing certain, nothing at all except the unimportance of everything I understand, and the greatness of something incomprehensible but all-important.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“At twenty the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many.” — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I wasn't exactly sure what "nothing good" meant, but I could imagine in this world of humans, "nothing good" could mean a lot of… — Tamra Torero Copy Share Image
“Everybody has a little good in them. Either good or just good for nothing.” — A.M. Griffin 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
“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
