Anthony Powell's Quotes
Born: 1905-12-21
Profession: Novelist
Nation: British
Biography of Anthony Powell
Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
Tags: Children, Parents, SometimesGrowing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
Tags: Crime, Growing, OldHe 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.
Tags: Love, Often, PassionSelf-love seems so often unrequited.
Tags: Often, Seems, UnrequitedFew persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.
Tags: Few, Process, WhileParents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
Tags: Children, Parents, SometimesPeople 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.
Tags: Cannot, Since, True