There is a strong disposition in youth, from which some individuals never escape, to suppose that everyone else is having a more enjoyable time than we are ourselves;

Anthony Powell
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens - Tony Deliso

  2. Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling - Tony Deliso

  3. I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me. - Tallulah Bankhead

  4. Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out. - Criss Jami

  5. I choose to write because it's perfect for me. It's an escape, a place I can go to hide. It's a friend, when I feel out casted from everyone else. It's a journal, when the only story I can tell is my own. <span style="margin:15px;... - Alysha Speer

More Quotes By Anthony Powell
  1. An exceedingly well-informed report, ' said the General. 'You have given yourself the trouble to go into matters thoroughly, I see. That is one of the secrets of success in life.

  2. For some reason, the sight of snow descending on fire always makes me think of the ancient world — legionaries in sheepskin warming themselves at a brazier: mountain altars where offerings glow between wintry pillars; centaurs with torches cantering beside a frozen sea — scattered,...

  3. Feeling unable to maintain this detachment of attitude towards human- and, in especial, matrimonial- affairs, I asked whether it was not true that she had married Bob Duport. She nodded; not exactly conveying, it seemed to me, that by some happy chance their union had...

  4. Books do furnish a room.

  5. Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

Related Topics