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
sex one-direction married
When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
men thinking
When men think much, they can rarely decide.
horse husband house
A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
madness sanity remnants
She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.
meals left-alone novel
To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.
book needs chiefs
Of all needs a book has, the chief need is to be readable.
horse dresses said
I don't like anybody or anything," said Lucinda. Yes, you do;--you like horses to ride, and dresses to wear.
church england world
The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion
mistake past years
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.
mean used ends
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.
men purple luxury
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.
men oxford literature
Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.
jugs
One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
sorrow folly
For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden.