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
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believe thinking views
I never believe anything that a lawyer says when he has a wig on his head and a fee in his hand. I prepare myself beforehand to regard it all as mere words, supplied at so much the thousand. I know he'll say whatever he thinks most likely to forward his own views.
men mind may
They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
children believe preparation
We all profess to believe when we're told that this world should be used merely as a preparation for the next; and yet there is something so cold and comfortless in the theory that we do not relish the prospect even for our children.
country science cities
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.
screws peg
Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
sorrow folly
For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden.
men age youth
He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.
men way fit
I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
men tyrants coward
Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
men feelings pursuit
A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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.
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.
enemy might should
An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.
men greedy enjoyment
Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.