Widmerpool Quotes

#1. Widmerpool's face assumed a dramatic expression that made him look rather like a large fish moving swiftly through opaque water to devour a smaller one.

Anthony Powell

#2. Widmerpool still represented to my mind a kind of embodiment of thankless labour and unsatisfied ambition.

Anthony Powell

#3. Widmerpool had tidied himself up a little since leaving school, though there was still a kind of exotic drabness about his appearance that seemed to mark him out from the rest of mankind.

Anthony Powell

#4. It doesn't do to read too much,' Widmerpool said. 'You get to look at life with a false perspective. By all means have some familiarity with the standard authors. I should never raise any objection to that. But it is no good clogging your mind with a lot of trash from modern novels.

Anthony Powell

#5. However, obeying that law that requires most people to minimise to a superior a misfortune which, to an inferior, they would magnify, Widmerpool thrust his head through the open window of the car, and, smiling reverentially, gave an assurance that all was well.

Anthony Powell

#6. He [Widmerpool] moistened his lips, though scarcely perceptibly. I thought his mixture of secretiveness and curiosity quite intolerable.

Anthony Powell

#7. I wore Nietzsche's eyes. Now that I step back to see, I haven't been me.

Paula Cole

#8. It's a special club. It's got history. When I slip on the Manchester United shirt, it's like I'm wearing its past. So you have to sacrifice yourself for this club.

Patrice Evra

#9. I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

Anthony Hamilton

#10. I don't really comment on my personal life because I feel like any comment at all is opening up a whole can of worms. I'd just rather not talk about who I'm dating.

Josh Hartnett

#11. Banks have a strong self-preservation instinct and are quick to adapt to new regulations.

Herve Falciani

#12. Only an atmosphere of quiet hard work and dull, serious conversation were appropriate to him.

Anthony Powell

#13. Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is equally the mother, and disowns none of them ...

James Anthony Froude

#14. [Ed Grimley] lives in a retirement home in New Jersey. It's called the Retirement Home in New Jersey for Characters Who Were Interesting in the '80s for About an Hour. He's there with the Whiners, Gumby and Jon Lovitz's 'That's the ticket' guy.

Martin Short

#15. A lot of newspaper columns used to be written in a rat-a-tat-tat, fast-paced style - and they tended to be funny. They were a little relief from the grimmer, grayer parts of the newspaper, and one of the best people at doing this was Will Rogers.

P. J. O'Rourke

#16. Simple is hard enough. Who needs complicated?

Teri Terry

#17. A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years.

Allen Ginsberg

#18. I know that there are several people in my life that I love that probably have no idea, but there are plenty of people I love that have been the subject of a "well-placed" sarcastic comment.

Will Walker

#19. Sports became a favorite subject of reflection and will soon be the only way of thinking

Vasily Klyuchevsky