Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollopewas one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Among his best-loved works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. He also wrote perceptive novels on political, social, and gender issues, and on other topical matters...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 April 1815
six twelve bliss
There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
wealth easy matrimony
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
men important illness
When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
girl eye dark
Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark.
writing editors habit
The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
new-york two insulting
Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.
sex clever stupid
I hate a stupid man who can't talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect. I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . . A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can't show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
romance matter stories
Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
punishment faces habit
He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.
oxford black clubs
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.
men world done
When you have done the rashest thing in the world it is very pleasant to be told that no man of spirit could have acted otherwise.
men voice numbers
Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder, the concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women's voices?
husband opposites views
Then Lady Chiltern argued the matter on views directly opposite to those which she had put forward when discussing the matter with her husband.
answers sin duty
But as the clerical pretensions are more exacting than all others, being put forward with an assertion that no answer is possible without breach of duty and sin, so are they more galling.