Anthony Trollope Quotes - Page 11

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• As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

  Anthony Trollope

  Happiness, This Life, Relinquishing

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Rachel Ray: Trollope's Works”, p.322, 谷月社

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• Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.

  Anthony Trollope

  Power, Looks, Crowds

  Anthony Trollope (2008). “Rachel Ray: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.570, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The property of manliness in a man is a great possession, but perhaps there is none that is less understood, which is more generally accorded where it does not exist, nor more frequently disallowed where it prevails.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Doe, Possession

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children”, p.2078, e-artnow

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• Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.

  Anthony Trollope

  Spring, Needs, Absence

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Last Chronicle of Barset (Unabridged): Victorian Classic from the prolific English novelist, known for The Palliser Novels, The Prime Minister, The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, Can You Forgive Her? and Phineas Finn…”, p.543, e-artnow

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• When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how it is to end.

  Anthony Trollope

  Writing, Care, Ends

  Anthony Trollope (1978). “An Autobiography”, p.214, Univ of California Press

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• No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed over to others.

  Anthony Trollope

  Law, Littles, Too Much

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children”, p.3085, e-artnow

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• Upon the present occasion London was full of clergymen. The specially clerical clubs, the Oxford and Cambridge, the Old University, and the Athenaeum, were black with them.

  Anthony Trollope

  Oxford, Black, Clubs

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.4527, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Natural, Affected

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.4753, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• I have never walked down Fifth Avenue alone without thinking of money.

  Anthony Trollope

  New York, Thinking, Fifth Avenue

  Anthony Trollope (2008). “North America”, p.208, Applewood Books

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• I think I owe my life to cork soles.

  Anthony Trollope

  Gratitude, Thinking, Wit

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children”, p.2338, e-artnow

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• I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that.

  Anthony Trollope

  Real, Rocks, Romance

  Anthony Trollope (1999). “Can You Forgive Her?”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.

  Anthony Trollope

  Hero, Clouds, Years

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Ayala's Angel”, p.306, Jester House Publishing

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• But the hobbledehoy, though he blushes when women address him, and is uneasy even when he is near them, though he is not master ofhis limbs in a ball-room, and is hardly master of his tongue at any time, is the most eloquent of beings, and especially eloquent among beautiful women.

  Anthony Trollope

  Marriage, Beautiful, Balls

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• It is very difficult to say nowadays where the suburbs of London come to an end and where the country begins. The railways, instead of enabling Londoners to live in the country have turned the countryside into a city.

  Anthony Trollope

  Country, Science, Cities

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• The difference of the English and Irish character is nowhere more plainly discerned than in their respective kitchens. With the former, this apartment is probably the cleanest, and certainly the most orderly, in the house.... An Irish kitchenis usually a temple dedicated to the goddess of disorder; and, too often, joined with her, is the potent deity of dirt.

  Anthony Trollope

  Character, Differences, House

  Anthony Trollope (1983). “Trollope-to-reader: A Topical Guide to Digressions in the Novels of Anthony Trollope”, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels.

  Anthony Trollope

  Angel, Thinking, Afterlife

  Anthony Trollope (1983). “The Letters of Anthony Trollope”, p.691, Stanford University Press

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• An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

  Anthony Trollope

  Truth, Literature, Barristers

  Anthony Trollope (1859). “The Bertrams”, p.47

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• The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.

  Anthony Trollope

  Children, Party, Plums

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.707, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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