Anthony Dymoke Powell Quotes
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.
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized
for a crime you haven't committed.
Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.
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 heavyfisted dexterity the mutually adapted emotions of each of them became synchronized, until the unavoidable anticlimax was at hand.
Growing old is 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. Selflove seems so often unrequited.
One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been . . . in the closest intimacy.
Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
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.
Self-love seems so often unrequited.