Greater Quote by Anthony Powell Download Open image “[T]here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.” — Anthony Powell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Greater Innate Innate Misery Love Love Teasing Misery Misery Love Tease Teasing
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Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached. — John Churton Collins Copy Share Image
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Despair is on the top when kindness and tenderness is punished by indifference and rudeness. — Kotlesya Copy Share Image
It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
But mortal bliss will never come sincere; Pleasure may lead, but grief blow brings up the rear — Greek Proverb Copy Share Image
We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but… — Edwidge Danticat 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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He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
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Life takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
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