More - Anthony Powell Quotes

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

Anthony Powell

 British Novelist Children

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

 Biography British Novelist

An immediate, overpowering, almost mystic sense of relief took shape within me. I felt suddenly sure everything was going to be all right. This was something quite apart from even the most cursory reflection upon strategic implications involved.

Anthony Powell

 

Books do furnish a room.

Anthony Powell

 British Novelist

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

 British Novelist

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Anthony Powell

 British Novelist

Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled by them and lumbering gloomily down vistas of triteness. With a sort of heavy-fisted dexterity the mutually adapted emotions of each of them became synchronized, until the unavoidable anti-climax was at hand.

Anthony Powell

 Seduction

We will never forget what he did for us.

Anthony Powell

 

It's more about faith and how God speaks to you and how it happens. I don't think I've worked on a play with such an even keel.

Anthony Powell

 Faith God

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

Anthony Powell

 Food