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.
school training scholar
But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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.
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.
want natural reverse
When one wants to be natural, of necessity one becomes the reverse of natural.
struggle self fire
It would seem that the full meaning of the word marriage can never be known by those who, at their first outspring into life, are surrounded by all that money can give. It requires the single sitting-room, the single fire, the necessary little efforts of self-devotion, the inward declaration that some struggle shall be made for that other one.
father book blessed
When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with so excellent a disposition.
men two together
The apostle of Christianity and the infidel can meet without a chance of a quarrel; but it is never safe to bring together two men who differ about a saint or a surplice.
religious people church
Mr. Browborough, whose life had not been passed in any strict obedience to the Ten Commandments, and whose religious observances had not hitherto interfered with either the pleasures or the duties of his life, repeated at every meeting which he attended, and almost to every elector whom he canvassed, the great Shibboleth which he had now adopted "The prosperity of England depends on the Church of her people.
men iron rights
Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
men advice subjects
There are some points on which no man can be contented to follow the advice of another - some subjects on which a man can consult his own conscience only.
men succeed lasts
Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
ideas doubt description
I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
men eight mad
I have read - nay, I have bought! - Carlyle's 'Latter Day Pamphlets,' and look on my eight shillings as very much thrown away. To me it appears that the grain of sense is so smothered up in a sack of the sheerest trash, that the former is valueless....I look on him as a man who was always in danger of going mad in literature and who has now done so.