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 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.
men mind emergencies
A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
men age youth
He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.
men way fit
I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
men tyrants coward
Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
love-is men expression
I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.
believe men important
A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else.
morning men demise
In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
men feelings pursuit
A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
men important illness
When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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?
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.