Books do furnish a room.
Anthony Powell

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

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

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.
Anthony Powell

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

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

Self-love seems so often unrequited.
Anthony Powell