274 Quotes by Anthony Powell

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.

I get a warm feeling among my books.

We will never forget what he did for us.

Dinner at the Huntercombes possessed only two dramatic features: the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy

An immediate, overpowering, almost mystic sense of relief took shape within me. I felt suddenly sure everything was going to be all right. This was something quite apart from even the most cursory reflection upon strategic implications involved.

It's more about faith and how God speaks to you and how it happens. I don't think I've worked on a play with such an even keel.

Albert’s shutters may have kept out the suffragettes: they did not effectively exclude the Furies.

Widmerpool still represented to my mind a kind of embodiment of thankless labour and unsatisfied ambition.

For my own part, I liked Lady Warminster, although at the same time never wholly at ease in her presence. She was immaculately free from any of the traditional blemishes of a mother-in-law; agreeable always; entertaining; even, in her own way, affectionate; but always a little alarming: an elegant, deeply experienced bird – perhaps a bird of prey – ready to sweep down and attack from the frozen mountain peaks upon which she preferred herself to live apart.