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 perfection might
The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
men knows
There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
girl honesty men
Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man's honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
towers quarters century
Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century.
girl husband lying
The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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.
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.
eye people mind
People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
two soup seven
If a cook can't make soup between two and seven, she can't make it in a week.
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.