“There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.”
Source: Barchester Towers
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Source: The Last Chronicle of Barset
Source: The Letters of Anthony Trollope
“I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.”
“And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.”
Source: Doctor Wortle's School
Source: Rachel Ray: Easyread Comfort Edition
Source: Rachel Ray: Trollope's Works
“I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.”
Source: The Three Clerks: Easyread Large Bold Edition
Source: Is He Popenjoy?: A Novel
“I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.”
Source: Phineas Finn
“Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.”
Source: The Bertrams: A Novel
Source: Orley farm
“Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.”
Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...
“High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.”
Source: The Claverings
Source: The Bertrams: Easyread Large Edition
Source: The Prime Minister
“Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.”
Source: Castle Richmond
“Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.”
Source: The Macdermots of Ballycloran: Trollope's Works
“Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.”
Source: Mr. Scarborough's Family
“There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.”
Source: Barchester Towers
Source: Barchester Towers: Trollope's Works
Source: Can You Forgive Her?
“That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.”
Source: Autobiography of Anthony Trollope
“A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.”
Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...
Source: The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children
Source: The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children
“Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.”
Source: The Way We Live Now
Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...
Source: Can You Forgive Her?
Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...
Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...
Source: Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works
“One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.”
Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...
“For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden.”
Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...
“Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.”
Source: He Knew He was Right
Source: The Prime Minister (Unabridged): Parliamentary Novel from the prolific English novelist, known for The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, The Last Chronicle of Barset, Can You Forgive Her? and Phineas Finn
Source: The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children
“I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.”
Source: He Knew He Was Right: Trollope's Works
Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...