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
done offers desirable
Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do.
men clothes long
This was Barrington Erle, a politician of long standing, who was still looked upon by many as a young man, because he had always been known as a young man, and because he had never done anything to compromise his position in that respect. He had not married, or settled himself down in a house of his own, or become subject to the gout, or given up being careful about the fitting of his clothes.
flirting reality ordinary
Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage.
school training scholar
But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
jade causes shy
Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.
men doe possession
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.
order creating may
Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.
england copyright
Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors.
men purpose moments
We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us.
law editors individual
An editor is bound to avoid the meshes of the law, which are always infinitely more costly to companies, or things, or institutions, than they are to individuals.
ideas house prison
The idea of putting old Browborough into prison for conduct which habit had made second nature to a large proportion of the House was distressing to Members of Parliament generally.
clever men often-is
A Minister can always give a reason; and, if he be clever, he can generally when doing so punish the man who asks for it. The punishing of an influential enemy is an indiscretion; but an obscure questioner may often be crushed with good effect.
want natural reverse
When one wants to be natural, of necessity one becomes the reverse of natural.
winning men animal
A bull in a china shop is not a useful animal, nor is he ornamental, but there can be no doubt of his energy. The hare was full of energy, but he didn't win the race. The man who stands still is the man who keeps his ground.