Quotes By Anthony Powell

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.

Books do furnish a room.

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

Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

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.

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

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

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