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
oxford black clubs
Upon the present occasion London was full of clergymen. The specially clerical clubs, the Oxford and Cambridge, the Old University, and the Athenaeum, were black with them.
men world done
When you have done the rashest thing in the world it is very pleasant to be told that no man of spirit could have acted otherwise.
men voice numbers
Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder, the concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women's voices?
husband opposites views
Then Lady Chiltern argued the matter on views directly opposite to those which she had put forward when discussing the matter with her husband.
answers sin duty
But as the clerical pretensions are more exacting than all others, being put forward with an assertion that no answer is possible without breach of duty and sin, so are they more galling.
mad people facts
But mad people never die. That's a well-known fact. They've nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
devil honest sober
The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
enemy might should
An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.
speech easy young
Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
blow men often-is
As will so often be the case when a men has a pen in his hand. It is like a club or sledge-hammer, in using which, either for defence or attack, a man can hardly measure the strength of the blows he gives.
angel men has-beens
You men find so many angels in your travels. You have been honester than some. You have generally been off with the old angel before you were with the new, as far at least as I knew.
mind delight east
The bucolic mind of East Barsetshire took warm delight in the eloquence of the eminent personage who represented them, but was wont to extract more actual enjoyment from the music of his periods than from the strength of his arguments.
people
Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
men greedy enjoyment
Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.