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