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
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The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little -- or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
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She understood how much louder a cock can crow in his own farmyard than elsewhere . . .
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She well knew the great architectural secret of decorating her constructions, and never condescended to construct a decoration.
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She knew how to allure by denying, and to make the gift rich by delaying it.
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There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony; that is, of course, provided that the aspirant declines the slow course of honest work.
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They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.
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The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion
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Little bits of things make me do it; — perhaps a word that I said and ought not to have said ten years ago; — the most ordinary little mistakes, even my own past thoughts to myself about the merest trifles. They are always making me shiver.
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But she knew this,—that it was necessary for her happiness that she should devote herself to some one. All the elegancies and outward charms of life were delightful, if only they could be used as the means to some end. As an end themselves they were nothing.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.