The Kindly Ones
Anthony Powell
Top 10 Best Quotes
“One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been from time to time in the closest intimacy.”
“Do you think love flourishes at Stourwater?’ ‘I don’t know,’ said Moreland. ‘Love means such different things to different people.”
“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.”
“In any case, I had been one of them. If her lovers were horrifying, I too had been of their order. That had to be admitted. ‘It is no good pontificating,’ Mr Deacon used to say, ‘about other people’s sexual tastes.”
“Reason is given to all men, but all men do not know how to use it. Liberty is offered to each one of us, but few learn to be free. Such gifts are, in any case, a right to be earned, not a privilege for the shiftless.”
“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.”
“As a child you are in some ways more acutely aware of what people feel about one another than you are when childhood has come to an end.”
“Verbal description of everything, however, must remain infinitely distant from the thing itself, overstatement and understatement sometimes hitting off the truth better than a flat assertion of bare fact.”
“There seemed no particular object in avoiding banality from the start, as the evening showed every sign of developing into a banal one.”
“The two of them might have met on that high place deliberately for public celebration of some rite or sacrifice. At first neither said a word. That seemed an age. At last Dr Trelawney took the initiative. Raising his right arm slightly, he spoke in a low clear voice, almost in the accents of one whose very perfect enunciation indicates that English is not his native tongue.”
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Book Keywords:
planning, success, friendship
