Famous Anthony Powell Quotes

  • He [Widmerpool] moistened his lips, though scarcely perceptibly. I thought his mixture of secretiveness and curiosity quite intolerable. – Anthony Powell

    He [Widmerpool] moistened his lips, though scarcely perceptibly. I thought his mixture of secretiveness and curiosity quite intolerable.– Anthony Powell

  • Some of the best of us are quite unambitious. – Anthony Powell

    Some of the best of us are quite unambitious.– Anthony Powell

  • Bring a torch, if you’ve got one. It’s as dark as hell and stinks of something far worse than cheese. – Anthony Powell

    Bring a torch, if you’ve got one. It’s as dark as hell and stinks of something far worse than cheese.– Anthony Powell

  • There is always a real and an imaginary person you are in love with; sometimes you love one best, sometimes the other. – Anthony Powell

    There is always a real and an imaginary person you are in love with; sometimes you love one best, sometimes the other.– Anthony Powell

  • There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you. – Anthony Powell

    There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you.– Anthony Powell

  • Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work. – Anthony Powell

    Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.– Anthony Powell

  • …in those days children were rather out of fashion. – Anthony Powell

    …in those days children were rather out of fashion.– Anthony Powell

  • In the break-up of a marriage the world inclines to take the side of the partner with most vitality, rather than the one apparently least to blame. – Anthony Powell

    In the break-up of a marriage the world inclines to take the side of the partner with most vitality, rather than the one apparently least to blame.– Anthony Powell

  • Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them. – Anthony Powell

    Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them.– Anthony Powell

  • Women may show some discrimination about whom they sleep with, but they’ll marry anybody. – Anthony Powell

    Women may show some discrimination about whom they sleep with, but they’ll marry anybody.– Anthony Powell