Source: Can You Forgive Her?
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Famous Anthony Trollope Quotes
“A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.”
Source: The Way We Live Now
“There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.”
Source: Barchester Towers
Source: The Last Chronicle of Barset
“And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.”
Source: Doctor Wortle's School
Source: Is He Popenjoy?: A Novel
“Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.”
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
Source: Barchester Towers: Trollope's Works
Source: Can You Forgive Her?
“There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.”
“There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.”
Source: Barchester Towers
“When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.”
Source: Marion Fay: Trollope's Works
“Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.”
Source: The American Senator
“An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.”
Source: The Bertrams
“I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.”
Source: Tales of All Countries
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: Marion Fay
“No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.”
“Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.”
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 ain't a bit ashamed of anything.”
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
“It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.”
Source: The Fixed Period
Source: Ralph the heir. With illustr. by F.A. Fraser
“Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.”
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...
“What is there that money will not do?”
Source: The Way We Live Now