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
men speak ifs
He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he know how to speak the truth.
men two people
A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
heart men feelings
There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance; a feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
country party long
It is the necessary nature of a political party in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which involves a great change.
giving progress body
Mr Palliser was one of those politicians in possessing whom England has perhaps more reason to be proud than of any other of her resources, and who, as a body, give to her that exquisite combination of conservatism and progress which is her present strength and best security for the future.
done offers desirable
Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do.
men clothes long
This was Barrington Erle, a politician of long standing, who was still looked upon by many as a young man, because he had always been known as a young man, and because he had never done anything to compromise his position in that respect. He had not married, or settled himself down in a house of his own, or become subject to the gout, or given up being careful about the fitting of his clothes.
flirting reality ordinary
Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage.
school training scholar
But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
jade causes shy
Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.
men doe possession
The property of manliness in a man is a great possession, but perhaps there is none that is less understood, which is more generally accorded where it does not exist, nor more frequently disallowed where it prevails.
order creating may
Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.
england copyright
Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors.
men purpose moments
We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us.