Quotes by Powell, Anthony

Self-love seems so often unrequited. >>

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything bu >>

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. The >>

Quotations about Seduction

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, >>

The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can't g >>

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the h >>

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.

Powell, Anthony