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
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.
people
Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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.
religious people church
Mr. Browborough, whose life had not been passed in any strict obedience to the Ten Commandments, and whose religious observances had not hitherto interfered with either the pleasures or the duties of his life, repeated at every meeting which he attended, and almost to every elector whom he canvassed, the great Shibboleth which he had now adopted "The prosperity of England depends on the Church of her people.
english-author good man people
Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
eye people mind
People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
voice people together
When any body of statesmen make public asservations by one or various voices, that there is no discord among them, not a dissentient voice on any subject, people are apt to suppose that they cannot hang together much longer.
thinking people romance
People go on quarrelling and fancying this and that, and thinking that the world is full of romance and poetry. When they get married they know better.
strong people feelings
There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
caustic nature rather satire satirist seem sins springs writes
The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little -- or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
crow elsewhere louder understood
She understood how much louder a cock can crow in his own farmyard than elsewhere . . .
construct decorating great knew secret
She well knew the great architectural secret of decorating her constructions, and never condescended to construct a decoration.
gift knew rich
She knew how to allure by denying, and to make the gift rich by delaying it.
course declines easy english-author honest provided road slow wealth
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony; that is, of course, provided that the aspirant declines the slow course of honest work.