Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
—Anthony Powell
Topics: Age, Aging, Crime
Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don’t fulfill the promise of their early years.
—Anthony Powell
Topics: Parenting, Parents
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
Topics: Seduction
Self-love seems so often unrequited.
—Anthony Powell
Topics: Confidence, Self-love
Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.
—Anthony Powell
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Elizabeth Gilbert American Novelist
- Virginia Woolf English Novelist
- Evelyn Waugh British Novelist, Satirist
- Henry Fielding English Novelist
- E. M. Forster English Novelist
- Graham Greene British Novelist
- Clarence Day American Author, Humorist
- Brian Aldiss English Novelist
- Jane Austen English Novelist
- William Makepeace Thackeray English Novelist
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