Anthony Trollope Quotes

• I think that Plantagenet Palliser, Duke of Omnium, is a perfect gentleman. If he be not, then I am unable to describe a gentleman.

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• It is admitted that a novel can hardly be made interesting or successful without love… It is necessary because the passion is one which interests or has interested all. Everyone feels it, has felt it, or expects to feel it.

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• Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors.

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• She was neither clear-sighted nor accurate; and in her attempts to describe morals, manners, and even facts, was unable to avoid the pitfalls of exaggeration.

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• He must have known me had he seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.

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• A man’s mind will very generally refuse to make itself up until it be driven and compelled by emergency.

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• Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.

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• Is it not singular how some men continue to obtain the reputation of popular authorship without adding a word to the literature of their country worthy of note?… To puff and to get one’s self puffed have become different branches of a new profession.

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• It is the necessary nature of a political in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which involves a great change… The best carriage horses are those which can most steadily hold back against the coach as it trundles down the hill.

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• What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.

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• We cannot have heroes to dine with us. There are none. And were those heroes to be had, we should not like them…the persons whom you cannot care for in a novel, because they are so bad, are the very same that you so dearly love in your life, because they are so good.

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• She knew how to allure by denying, and to make the gift rich by delaying it.

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• Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty than that…of knowing himself to be quite loved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.

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• Mr Turnball had predicted evil consequences…and was now doing the best in his power to bring about the verification of his own prophecies.

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• A faineant government is not the worst government that England can have. It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.

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• They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.

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• It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.

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• She understood how much louder a cock can crow in its own farmyard then elsewhere.

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• How I did respect you when you dared to speak the truth to me! Men don’t know women, or they would be harder to them.

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• It was manifest to me that there was something in the Roman Catholic religion which made the priests very dear to the people; for I doubt whether in any village in England, had such an accident happened to the rector, all the people would have roused themselves at midnight to wreak their vengeance on the assailant.

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Anthony Trollope (97)

Birth:	24th April, 1815
Death:	6th December, 1882
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist

About

Anthony Trollope  was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of his best-loved works, collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. He also wrote perceptive novels on political, social, and gender issues, and on other topical matters. At the time of his marriage, he had only written the first of three volumes of his first novel, The Macdermots of Ballycloran. Trollope wrote four novels about Ireland.

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