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
church england world
The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion
writing world four
This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.
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.
secret world way
The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
life-and-love want world
I cannot hold with those who want to put down the insignificant chatter of the world
giving world letters
A pleasant letter I hold to be the pleasantest thing that this world has to give.
circles wish world
For themost of us, if we donot talkof ourselves, orat any rate of the individual circles of which we are the centres, we can talk of nothing. I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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.
best english-author whose
They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.
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.