Giving Quote by Anthony Powell

“Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch…” quote by Anthony Powell — Download Open image

“Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (3 ratings)

Giving Learning Life Lightness Pity Self Self pity Understanding Understanding Of Life

More by Anthony Powell

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

Image

“Like everything that's any good, it has about twenty different meanings.”

Anthony Powell

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

Image

“The crematorium was a blaze of sunshine.”

Anthony Powell

Image

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

Anthony Powell

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

Image

“Enormous simplifications were possibly necessary to carry a deeper truth than lay on the surface of a mass of unsorted detail.”

Anthony Powell

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

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

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

Image

Dinner at the Huntercombes possessed only two dramatic features: the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy

Anthony Powell

Image

“Even then I did not recognise the quest for power.”

Anthony Powell

Image

Explore all 156 Anthony Powell quotes

More Giving quotes

Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself.…

Hermann Hesse

Image

The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist…

Chuck Klosterman

Image

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Image

Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.

Alan Greenspan