Anthony Trollope quotes - page 6

To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods. (Anthony Trollope)
As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour. View quote
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Life is so unlike theory. View quote
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High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart. View quote
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It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually. View quote
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It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men. View quote
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A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces. View quote
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He don't look the sort of fellow I like; but he's got money and he comes here, and he's good looking, - and therefore he'll be a success. View quote
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The Rev. Septimus Harding was, a few years since, a beneficed clergyman residing in the cathedral town of _____; let us call it Barchester. Were we to name Wells or Salisbury, Exeter, Hereford, or Gloucester, it might be presumed that something personal was intended; and as this tale will refer mainly to the cathedral dignitaries of the of the town in question, we are anxious that no personality may be suspected. View quote
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There is, perhaps, no greater hardship at present inflicted on mankind in civilised and free countries, than the neccessity of listening to sermons. View quote
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You Ministers go on shuffling the old cards till they are so worn out and dirty that one can hardly tell the pips on them. (Anthony Trollope)
He had so accustomed himself to wield the constitutional cat-of-nine-tails, that heaven will hardly be happy to him unless he be allowed to flog the cherubim. View quote
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Their support was not needed, therefore they were not courted. View quote
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He was not so anxious to prove himself right, as to be so. View quote
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I think it is so glorious," said the American. "There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality. That is what father says. What men ought to want is liberty. View quote
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But how shall I excuse it? There are things done which are as holy as the heavens, - which are clear before God as the light of the sun, which leave no stain on the conscience, and which yet the malignity of man can invest with the very blackness of hell! View quote
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Above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning. View quote
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Above all else, never think you're not good enough. View quote
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She had married a vulgar man; and, though she had not become like the man, she had become vulgar. View quote
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I always thought there was very little wit wanted to make a fortune in the City. View quote
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In the latter days of July in the year 185-, a most important question was for ten days hourly asked in the cathedral city of Barchester, and answered every hour in various ways - Who was to be the new Bishop? (Anthony Trollope)
Of course there was a Great House at Allington. How otherwise should there have been a Small House? View quote
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It is not true that a rose by any other name will smell as sweet. Were it true, I should call this story "The Great Orley Farm Case." But who would ask for the ninth number of a serial work burthened with so very uncouth an appellation? Thence, and therefore, - Orley Farm. View quote
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Let her who is forty call herself forty; but if she can be young in spirit at forty, let her show that she is so. View quote
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You can never teach them, except by the slow lesson of habit. View quote
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