A Dance to the Music of Time Quotes

“Even the formal measure of the Seasons seemed suspended in the wintry silence.”
― Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: 4th Movement

“Within this hollow bed of the stream the whole range of the quarry was out of sight, except for where the just visible peak of an escarpment of spoil shelved up to the horizon's mountainous coagulations of floating cottonwool, a density of white cloud perforated here and there by slowly opening and closing loopholes of the palest blue light.”
― Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: 4th Movement

“One’s capacity for hearing about ghastly doings lessens with age.”
― Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: 4th Movement

“For some reason Canon Fenneau made me feel a little uneasy. His voice might be soft, it was also coercive. He had small eyes, a large loose mouth, the lips thick, a somewhat receding chin. The eyes were the main feature. They were unusual eyes, not only almost unnaturally small, but vague, moist, dreamy, the eyes of a medium. His cherubic side, increased by a long slightly uptilted nose, was a little too good to be true, with eyes like that. In the manner in which he gave you all his attention there was a taste for mastery.”
― Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: 4th Movement

“In any case the friendships of later life, in contrast wih those negotiated before thirty, are apt to be burdened with reservations, constraints, inhibitions.”
― Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: 4th Movement