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
law littles too-much
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.
giving-up giving should
When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
wish treats should
If we wish ourselves to be high, we should treat that which is over us as high.
equality men mind
The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God. Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
clever men boston
I know no place at which an Englishman may drop down suddenly among a pleasanter circle of acquaintance, or find himself with a more clever set of men, than he can do at Boston.
falling-in-love journey car
If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over. Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
children party plums
The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.
fall taken cities
Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
country men self
Is it not singular how some men continue to obtain the reputation of popular authorship without adding a word to the literature of their country worthy of note?? To puff and to get one's self puffed have become different branches of a new profession.
cousin brother uncles
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.
men audacity virtue
Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
men grace gone
The grace and beauty of life will be clean gone when we all become useful men.
men facts opinion
But facts always convince, and another man's opinion rarely convinces.
agreement contracts wells
One doesn't have an agreement to that effect written down on parchment and sealed; but it is as well understood and ought to be as faithfully kept as any legal contract.