Bertie King

“What a shabby lot of highbrows have turned out tonight," he said, when he saw us. "It makes me ashamed to be one.”
― Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: 2nd Movement

“Do you think love flourishes at Stourwater?’
‘I don’t know,’ said Moreland. ‘Love means such different things to different people.”
― Anthony Powell, The Kindly Ones

“We took a bus to Victoria, then passed on foot into a vast, desolate region of stucco streets and squares upon which a doom seemed to have fallen. The gloom was cosmic.”
― Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: 2nd Movement

“However much one hears about individuals, the picture formed in the mind rarely approximates to the reality. So it was with Mrs Maclintick. I was not prepared for her in the flesh. When she opened the door to us, her formidable discontent with life swept across the threshold in scorching, blasting waves.”
― Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: 2nd Movement