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
men thinking division
Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
reading men thinking
That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing. Could I have remembered, as some men do, what I read, I should have been able to call myself an educated man. But that power I have never possessed. Something is always left--something dim and inaccurate--but still something sufficient to preserve the taste for more. I am inclined to think that it is so with most readers.
honesty men political
It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
believe rap dark
Men who cannot believe in the mystery of our Saviour's redemption can believe that spirits from the dead have visited them in a stranger's parlour, because they see a table shake and do not know how it is shaken; because they hear a rapping on a board, and cannot see the instrument that raps it; because they are touched in the dark, and do not know the hand that touches them.
lying order may
There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
money men forget
A man will be generally very old and feeble before he forgets how much money he has in the funds.
spring needs absence
Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.
country book doctors
Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbours among whom, our doctor followed his profession.
marriage girl money
That girls should not marry for money we are all agreed. A lady who can sell herself for a title or an estate, for an income or aset of family diamonds, treats herself as a farmer treats his sheep and oxen--makes hardly more of herself, of her own inner self, in which are comprised a mind and soul, than the poor wretch of her own sex who earns her bread in the lowest state of degradation.
politics england aristocracy
Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.
wisdom perseverance gone
There's nothing like going on with a thing.
ambition castles literature
I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
retirement work parent
As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.
everyday enemy speech
It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life.