A collection of quotes and sayings by Anthony Powell on love, passion, self, children, parents, self-love, true, people, portrait, furnish, process, crime, committed and early.
25 Thought-Provoking Quotes By Anthony Powell
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Anthony Powell was an eminent English novelist well-known for his work ‘A Dance To The Music Of Time’. The writings, thoughts, books and major works by the prolific writer have been in print continuously and have also been adapted in TV and radio dramatizations. He has also been included in the list of ‘The 50 Greatest British Writers since 1945’ by ‘The Times’. Powell started his career as an apprentice at ‘Gerald Duckworth And Company’. He also took up the work of reviewing novels for ‘The Daily Telegraph’ and autobiographies and memoirs for ‘The Spectator’. Following is a corpus of notable thoughts, opinions and viewpoints that the prolific writer expressed through his writings, books, work and life. Let us browse through the quotes and thoughts by Anthony Powell.
One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been from time to time in the closest intimacy.
An exceedingly well-informed report,' said the General. 'You have given yourself the trouble to go into matters thoroughly, I see. That is one of the secrets of success in life.
Human relationships flourish and decay, quickly and silently, so that those concerned scarcely know how brittle, or how inflexible, the ties that bind them have become.
Anthony Powell
Women may show some discrimination about whom they sleep with, but they'll marry anybody.
Anthony Powell
My brother is a strange fellow," said Bernard, speaking with terrible bonhomie.
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Well,' said Mrs. Erdleigh, speaking kindly, as if to a child who has proposed a game inevitably associated with the breakage of china, 'I know trouble will come of it if we do.
A woman’s power of imitation and adaptation make her capable of confronting you with your own arguments after even the briefest acquaintance: how much more so if a state of intimacy exists.
Barnby always dismissed the idea of intelligence in a woman as no more than a characteristic to be endured.
Anthony Powell
Daydreams of wealth or women must have given Carolo that faraway look which never left him; sad and silent, he contemplated huge bank balances and voluptuous revels.
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 possess little enough.
I did not, however, as yet see him as one of those symbolic figures, of whom most people possess at least one example, if not more, round whom the past and the future have a way of assembling.
