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
children thinking reason
I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
heart feet touching
With many women I doubt whether there be any more effectual wayof touching their hearts than ill-using them and then confessing it. If you wish to get the sweetest fragrance from the herb at your feet, tread on it and bruise it.
girl character men
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.
men opposites giving
Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular? Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
apology men may
I would recommend all men in choosing a profession to avoid any that may require an apology at every turn; either an apology or else a somewhat violent assertion of right.
religious morning night
Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night... Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
husband hate wife
Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife's hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
book hero tears
Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear
sometimes philanthropist venomous
I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
difficult get-away wells
To get away well is so very much! And to get away well is often so very difficult!
money long accounts
Short accounts make long friends.
sports men likes
A man can't do what he likes with his coverts.
travel flirting land
On board ship there are many sources of joy of which the land knows nothing. You may flirt and dance at sixty; and if you are awkward in the turn of a valse, you may put it down to the motion of the ship. You need wear no gloves, and may drink your soda-and-brandy without being ashamed of it.
gratitude thinking wit
I think I owe my life to cork soles.