Widmerpool's 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 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

#3. There is always a beautiful light around the compassionate people: The shining light of goodness!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. The future of humanity will move closer and closer toward the approach of Zen, because the meeting of the East and West is possible only through something like Zen, which is earthly and yet unearthly.

Rajneesh

#5. Art, if it is art, will develop in whatever circumstances it is placed.

Myrtle Reed

#6. The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.

George F. Kennan

#7. May you live long, but not in good health.

Stephen King

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

Anthony Powell

#9. 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

#10. I breathe in...the silence
of my own heart
aching with tenderness
with memories..
Of home.

Sanober Khan

#11. 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

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

Anthony Powell

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

Anthony Powell

#14. Prepare well! Take two inks; you may never know when one pen will stop writing!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#15. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Helen Keller

#16. One of the greatest gifts in this world is the ability to make others smile. - The Unauthorized Autobiography of Jonathan Fisher

J.E.B. Spredemann

#17. Angel: What's sauerkraut? Max: You don't want it. Trust me.

James Patterson

#18. It was only later, in her new, darker rooms above the banking house, that she realized it didn't matter how loud she screamed or how violently she wept. Her parents would never come to her because, being dead, they didn't care anymore.

Daniel Abraham

#19. We have to keep up the fight for evidence-based science and policy.

Piers Corbyn