Umfraville Quotes

#1. The exaggerated dramatic force employed by Umfraville in presenting his narrative made it hard to know what demeanour best to adopt in listening to the story. Tragedy might at any moment give way to farce, so that the listener had always to keep his wits about him.

Anthony Powell

#2. A company commander,' said Dicky Umfraville, when we met later that year, 'needs the qualifications of a ringmaster in a first-class circus, and a nanny in a large family.

Anthony Powell

#3. Both she and Umfraville might be said to represent forms of revolt, and nothing dates people more than the standards from which they have chosen to react.

Anthony Powell

#4. But the kings of modern times, restrained by the limits of mere probability, have neither courage nor desire. They fear the eat that hears their orders, and the eye that scrutinizes their actions.

Alexandre Dumas

#5. This is the only real revelation - that God is only a trick with mirrors, our dark reflection in a glass.

Philip Appleman

#6. I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

Pierre Beaumarchais

#7. I wish I was as thin as I was when I thought I was fat.

Fridge Magnet

#8. Self-compassion is an inoculate for the mind, protecting it from potential harm. Emotional disease cannot contaminate the minds of those who are wise enough to love and accept themselves.

Miya Yamanouchi