--- title: "Best Anthony Powell Sayings" description: "Anthony Dymoke Powell was an English novelist best known for his twelve‑volume work A Dance to the Music of Time. Browse 156 Anthony Powell quotes." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-anthony-powell-14138.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-anthony-powell-14138.jpg) # Anthony Powell (1905–2000) Writer United Kingdom **156** quotes in **304** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Anthony Powell was a writer from the United Kingdom, best known for *A dance to the music of time*. ## Quick Facts About Anthony Powell Born December 21, 1905 Died March 28, 2000 Nationality United Kingdom Profession Writer Notable works A dance to the music of time ## About Anthony Powell Anthony Dymoke Powell was an English novelist best known for his twelve‑volume work A Dance to the Music of Time. The twelve volumes were published between 1951 and 1975, and the series is listed among the longest novels in English. ## Awards & Honors Academy Award for Best Costume Design BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design César Award for Best Costume Design Tony Award for Best Costume Design Royal Designer for Industry ## Quotes by Anthony Powell · Page 3 > [“Since the baby had died, they had had no other child.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/since-the-baby-had-died-they-had-had-no-other-child/) [Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/) [Baby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/baby/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/751/anthony-powell-2659_children_since-the-baby-had-died-they-had-had-no_1484861.jpg) > [“The mere phrase ‘artificial manure’ told the whole story.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/the-mere-phrase-artificial-manure-told-the-whole-story/) [Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/) [Manure](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/manure/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/49a/anthony-powell-2659_quote_the-mere-phrase-artificial-manure-told-t_1752577.jpg) > [“My brother is a strange fellow," said Bernard, speaking with terrible bonhomie.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/my-brother-is-a-strange-fellow-said-bernard-speaking-with-terrible/) [Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/) [Bonhomie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bonhomie-22369/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d46/anthony-powell-2659_bonhomie_my-brother-is-a-strange-fellow-said-bern_1035523.jpg) > [“That was when I began to suspect that being in love might be a complicated affair.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/that-was-when-i-began-to-suspect-that-being-in-love-might-be-a/) [Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/) [Affair](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/affair/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/95e/anthony-powell-2659_affair_that-was-when-i-began-to-suspect-that-be_722616.jpg) > [There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/there-is-after-all-no-pleasure-like-that-given-by-a-woman-who-really/) [Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/) [Given](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/given/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/582/anthony-powell-2659_given_there-is-after-all-no-pleasure-like-that_1422047.jpg) > [“I know nothing of music,’ Barnby had, in turn, once remarked, ‘but Hugh Moreland’s accompaniment to that film sounded to me like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/i-know-nothing-of-music-barnby-had-in-turn-once-remarked-but-hugh/) [Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/) [Music](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/music/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ce/anthony-powell-2659_music_i-know-nothing-of-music-barnby-had-in-tu_356115.jpg) > [Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/self-pity-is-essentially-humorless-devoid-of-that-lightness-of-touch/) [Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/) [Giving](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/giving/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/897/anthony-powell-2659_giving_self-pity-is-essentially-humorless-devoi_2993407.jpg) > [Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/parents-are-sometimes-a-bit-of-a-disappointment-to-their-children/) [Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/) [Bits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bits/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/530/anthony-powell-2659_bits_parents-are-sometimes-a-bit-of-a-disappo_55671.jpg) > [“Albert’s shutters may have kept out the suffragettes: they did not effectively exclude the Furies.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/albert-s-shutters-may-have-kept-out-the-suffragettes-they-did-not/) [Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/) [Suffragettes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/suffragettes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c93/anthony-powell-2659_quote_albert-s-shutters-may-have-kept-out-the_2037241.jpg) > [“For my own part, I always enjoy hearing the details of other people’s lives, whether imaginary or not, so that I found…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/for-my-own-part-i-always-enjoy-hearing-the-details-of-other-people-s/) [Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/) [Agreeable](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/agreeable/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14a/anthony-powell-2659_quote_for-my-own-part-i-always-enjoy-hearing-t_2127369.jpg) > [Dinner at the Huntercombes possessed only two dramatic features: the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/dinner-at-the-huntercombes-possessed-only-two-dramatic-features-the/) [Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/) [Cooking](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cooking/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f1/anthony-powell-2659_cooking_dinner-at-the-huntercombes-possessed-onl_172085.jpg) > [“Women can be immensely obtuse about all kinds of things,’ Barnby was fond of saying, ‘but where the emotions are concerned their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/women-can-be-immensely-obtuse-about-all-kinds-of-things-barnby-was/) [Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/) [Fond Saying](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fond-saying-343496/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/179/anthony-powell-2659_quote_women-can-be-immensely-obtuse-about-all_1838110.jpg) > [Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/few-persons-who-have-ever-sat-for-a-portrait-can-have-felt-anything/) [Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/) [Felt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/felt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b9d/anthony-powell-2659_felt_few-persons-who-have-ever-sat-for-a-port_2819059.jpg) > [“It is rather an occasion, darling,’ said Moreland, vexed at these objections. ‘After all, I am noted among composers for the smallness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/it-is-rather-an-occasion-darling-said-moreland-vexed-at-these/) [Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/) [Productivity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/productivity/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed4/anthony-powell-2659_productivity_it-is-rather-an-occasion-darling-said-mo_159553.jpg) > [For reasons not always at the time explicable, there are specific occasions when events begin suddenly to take on a significance previously…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/for-reasons-not-always-at-the-time-explicable-there-are-specific/) [Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/) [Avenues](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/avenues/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc9/anthony-powell-2659_avenues_for-reasons-not-always-at-the-time-expli_2289577.jpg) > [“The General, speaking one felt with authority, always insisted that, if you bring off adequate preservation of your personal myth, nothing much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/the-general-speaking-one-felt-with-authority-always-insisted-that-if/) [Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/) [Life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ee/anthony-powell-2659_life_the-general-speaking-one-felt-with-autho_2846688.jpg) > [“TWO COMPENSATIONS FOR GROWING OLD are worth putting on record as the condition asserts itself. The first is a vantage point gained…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/two-compensations-for-growing-old-are-worth-putting-on-record-as-the/) [Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/) [Growing old](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/growing-old/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be2/anthony-powell-2659_growing-old_two-compensations-for-growing-old-are-wo_2263243.jpg) > [“It was realisation, in a moment of time, not only of her own possibilities, far from inconsiderable ones, but also of other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/it-was-realisation-in-a-moment-of-time-not-only-of-her-own/) [Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/) [Life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f9b/anthony-powell-2659_life_it-was-realisation-in-a-moment-of-time-n_2013884.jpg) > [When people really hate one another, the tension within them can sometimes make itself felt throughout a room, like atmospheric waves, first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/when-people-really-hate-one-another-the-tension-within-them-can/) [Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/) [Air](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/air/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e2/anthony-powell-2659_air_when-people-really-hate-one-another-the_765640.jpg) > [“Changing the subject, she turned to me and said: ‘I think poor Mr. Le Bas must be so glad that Charles has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/changing-the-subject-she-turned-to-me-and-said-i-think-poor-mr-le-bas/) [Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/) [Charles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/charles/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc3/anthony-powell-2659_quote_changing-the-subject-she-turned-to-me-an_2006553.jpg) > [“Feeling unable to maintain this detachment of attitude towards human- and, in especial, matrimonial- affairs, I asked whether it was not true…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/feeling-unable-to-maintain-this-detachment-of-attitude-towards-human/) [Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/) [Funny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/funny/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/655/anthony-powell-2659_funny_feeling-unable-to-maintain-this-detachme_2288537.jpg) > [“He stood pondering this flat, forthright declaration of anti-simianism on Miss Weedon’s part. The notion that some people might not like monkeys…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/he-stood-pondering-this-flat-forthright-declaration-of-anti-simianism/) [Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/) [Like Monkeys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/like-monkeys-1493851/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b2/anthony-powell-2659_quote_he-stood-pondering-this-flat-forthright_326496.jpg) > [“For some reason, the sight of snow descending on fire always makes me think of the ancient world—legionaries in sheepskin warming themselves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/for-some-reason-the-sight-of-snow-descending-on-fire-always-makes-me/) [Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/) [Imagined](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/imagined/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e5/anthony-powell-2659_life_for-some-reason-the-sight-of-snow-descen_1667646.jpg) > [“Youth, dumb with embarrassment, breathless with exhibitionism, stuttering with nerves, inarticulate with conceit; the socially flamboyant, the robustly brawny, the crudely uninstructed,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/youth-dumb-with-embarrassment-breathless-with-exhibitionism/) [Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/) [Flamboyant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/flamboyant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b0/anthony-powell-2659_shame_youth-dumb-with-embarrassment-breathless_854463.jpg) > [“not required to stay late in the Whitehall area, I used, as a general routine, to come straight back from duty to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/not-required-to-stay-late-in-the-whitehall-area-i-used-as-a-general/) [Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/) [Habits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/habits/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b27/anthony-powell-2659_habits_not-required-to-stay-late-in-the-whiteha_2138101.jpg) > [“He laughed a lot, and this would have been the moment to leave him, and go on our way. We should probably…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/he-laughed-a-lot-and-this-would-have-been-the-moment-to-leave-him-and/) [Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/) [Morse code](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/morse-code/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5c7/anthony-powell-2659_morse-code_he-laughed-a-lot-and-this-would-have-bee_1695112.jpg) > [“At the same time, the notion that he was entirely actuated by ‘rational’ motives was also no doubt far from the truth.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/at-the-same-time-the-notion-that-he-was-entirely-actuated-by-rational/) [Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/) [Love](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/love/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0d/anthony-powell-2659_love_at-the-same-time-the-notion-that-he-was_1933691.jpg) > [“At the same time, a faint sense of disappointment superimposed on an otherwise absorbing inner experience was in its way suitably Proustian…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/at-the-same-time-a-faint-sense-of-disappointment-superimposed-on-an/) [Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/) [Failure](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/failure/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b0/anthony-powell-2659_failure_at-the-same-time-a-faint-sense-of-disapp_2570986.jpg) > [“He gave me a look of great contempt; as I supposed, for venturing, even by implication, to draw a parallel between a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/he-gave-me-a-look-of-great-contempt-as-i-supposed-for-venturing-even/) [Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/) [Affluence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/affluence/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b5/anthony-powell-2659_affluence_he-gave-me-a-look-of-great-contempt-as-i_2218116.jpg) > [Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/parents-especially-step-parents-are-sometimes-a-bit-of-a/) [Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/) [Bit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bit/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/291/anthony-powell-2659_bit_parents-especially-step-parents-are-some_796988.jpg) > [“Moreland could never get used to the fact that most people—in this particular case, Templer—lead lives in which the arts play no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/moreland-could-never-get-used-to-the-fact-that-most-people-in-this/) [Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/) [Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bd7/anthony-powell-2659_art_moreland-could-never-get-used-to-the-fac_2003276.jpg) > [One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/one-passes-through-the-world-knowing-few-if-any-of-the-important/) [Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/) [Important](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/important/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3d/anthony-powell-2659_important_one-passes-through-the-world-knowing-few_257523.jpg) > [“He spoke as if procreation of children were an extraordinary fate to overtake anyone, consequence of imprudence, if not worse.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/he-spoke-as-if-procreation-of-children-were-an-extraordinary-fate-to/) [Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/) [Children](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c26/anthony-powell-2659_children_he-spoke-as-if-procreation-of-children-w_1190009.jpg) > [“There seemed no particular object in avoiding banality from the start, as the evening showed every sign of developing into a banal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/there-seemed-no-particular-object-in-avoiding-banality-from-the-start/) [Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/) [Banal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/banal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e51/anthony-powell-2659_banal_there-seemed-no-particular-object-in-avo_160540.jpg) > [“We were now in the midst of dangerous abstractions which might once more threaten further embarrassments of the kind I hoped to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/we-were-now-in-the-midst-of-dangerous-abstractions-which-might-once/) [Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/) [Midst Dangerous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/midst-dangerous-2714318/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91a/anthony-powell-2659_quote_we-were-now-in-the-midst-of-dangerous-ab_1217445.jpg) > [The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd - one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/the-whole-idea-of-interviews-is-in-itself-absurd-one-cannot-answer/) [Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/) [Absurd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/absurd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36d/anthony-powell-2659_absurd_the-whole-idea-of-interviews-is-in-itsel_1216067.jpg) > [“I always enjoy this title—Cambises, King of Percia: a Lamentable Tragedy mixed full of Pleasant Mirth.’ ‘What's it like?’ ‘Not particularly exciting,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/i-always-enjoy-this-title-cambises-king-of-percia-a-lamentable/) [Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/) [Enjoy Title](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/enjoy-title-3009440/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ab/anthony-powell-2659_enjoy-title_i-always-enjoy-this-title-cambises-king_759711.jpg) > [“Mr Deacon used to say nothing spread more ultimate gloom at a party than an exuberant manner which has roused false hopes.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/mr-deacon-used-to-say-nothing-spread-more-ultimate-gloom-at-a-party/) [Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/) [Hope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hope/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a6/anthony-powell-2659_hope_mr-deacon-used-to-say-nothing-spread-mor_1500514.jpg) > [“Well,' said Mrs. Erdleigh, speaking kindly, as if to a child who has proposed a game inevitably associated with the breakage of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-powell/well-said-mrs-erdleigh-speaking-kindly-as-if-to-a-child-who-has/) [Anthony Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-powell/) [Children](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ad/anthony-powell-2659_children_well-said-mrs-erdleigh-speaking-kindly-a_3034116.jpg) > [“I hate anything superficial. 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