Anthony Powell

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

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.

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

Self love seems so often unrequited.

Books do furnish a room.

The army is at once the worst place for egoists, and the best.

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

One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are. You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be.

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

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

Growing old is like beingincreasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.

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.