Anthony Powell quotes

" Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. " # Age and Aging # Crime and Criminals # Commitment

" Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years. " # Parents and Parenting # Children # Love

" Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on. " # Portraits # Photography # Painters and Painting

" 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. " # Seduction # Love # Change

" Self-love seems so often unrequited. " # Self-love

" 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. " # Love # Passion # Faith

" The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd – one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like – one writes novels about it. " # Interviews # Fiction # Questions

" Parents – especially step-parents – are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fufill the promise of their early years. " # Children # Parents and Parenting # Love

" Self-love seems so often unrequited. " # Love

" Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. " # Age and Aging # Crime and Criminals # Commitment