Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882)
One of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era.
But between you and me there should be no mention of law as the guide of conduct. Speak to me of honour, of duty, and of nobility; and tell me what they require of you.
In the latter days of July in the year 185-, a most important question was for ten days hourly asked in the cathedral city of Barchester, and answered every hour in various ways — Who was to be the new Bishop?
It seemed, indeed, to Phineas that as Mrs. Low was buckled up in such triple armour that she feared nothing, she might have been less loud in expression her abhorrence of the enemies of the Church. If she feared nothing, why should she scream so loudly?
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.
He could find no cure for his grief; but he did know that continued occupation would relieve him, and therefore he occupied himself continually.
Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
It may, indeed, be assumed that a man who loses his temper while he is speaking is endeavouring to speak the truth such as he believes it to be, and again it may be assumed that a man who speaks constantly without losing his temper is not always entitled to the same implicit faith.
They were always together, but I dare say it was Platonic. I believe these kind of things generally are Platonic.
She knew how to allure by denying, and to make the gift rich by delaying it.
No doubt there were other first cousins as badly off, or perhaps worse, as to whom the Duchess would care nothing whether they were rich or poor, — married or single; but then they were first cousins who had not had the advantage of interesting the Duchess.
Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
When any body of statesmen make public asservations by one or various voices, that there is no discord among them, not a dissentient voice on any subject, people are apt to suppose that they cannot hang together much longer.
“I haven’t the slightest direction of anything.”
“Nor have I; but as we clearly can’t get out this way we might as well try the other.”
In former days, when there were Whigs instead of Liberals, it was almost a rule of political life that all leading Whigs sould be uncles, brothers-in-law, or cousins to each other. This was pleasant and gave great consistency to the party; but the system has now gone out of vogue.
All history, all romance, all poetry and all prose, taught him that perseverance in love was generally crowned with success, — that true love rarely was crowned with success except by perseverance.
I don’t know about that. — A poet doesn't want to marry a poetess, nor a philosopher a philosopheress.
He has the power of making the world believe him simply because he has been rich and a duke.
There is such a difference between life and theory.