Anthony Powell Quotes

"Self-love seems so often unrequited."
- Anthony Powell
(Related: Self)

"Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years."
- Anthony Powell
(Related: Children, Disappointment, Parents, Promise, Years)

"Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed."
- Anthony Powell
(Related: Being, Crime, Old)

"Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on."
- Anthony Powell

"He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited."
- Anthony Powell
(Related: Love, First, Passion, Self, Sight)

"People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that."
- Anthony Powell
(Related: People, Biography, Circumstance)

"Books do furnish a room."
- Anthony Powell
(Related: Books)