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.
I don’t know about that. — A poet doesn't want to marry a poetess, nor a philosopher a philosopheress.
“He is such a gentleman; — and, at the same time, the most abstract and the most concrete man that I know.”
“Abstract and concrete!”
“You are bound to use adjectives of that sort now, Miss Palliser, if you mean to be anybody in conversation.”
But facts always convince, and another man‘s opinion rarely convinces.
Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
Men are so seldom really good. They are so little sympathetic. What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
There is such a difference between life and theory.
He has the power of making the world believe him simply because he has been rich and a duke.
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.”