Top 400 Anthony Trollope Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “We can generally read a man’s purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us.”

— Anthony Trollope

402. “She had seen no one who had so touched her. But she was alive to the romance of the thing, and was in love with the idea of being in love.”

— Anthony Trollope

403. “It is good to be beautiful, but it should come of God and not of the hairdresser. And personal dignity is a great possession; but a man should struggle for it no more than he would for beauty.”

— Anthony Trollope

404. “He possessed the tact of becoming instantly intimate with women without giving rise to any fear of impertinence. He had about him somewhat of the propensities of a tame cat. It seemed quite natural that he should be petted, caressed, and treated with familiar good nature, and that in return he should purr, and be sleek and graceful, and above all never show his claws. Like other tame cats, however, he had his claws, and sometimes made them dangerous.”

— Anthony Trollope

405. “Of course he had committed forgery; – of course he had committed robbery. That, indeed, was nothing, for he had been cheating and forging and stealing all his life.”

— Anthony Trollope

406. “If we wish ourselves to be high, we should treat that which is over us as high.”

— Anthony Trollope

407. “Lord Fawn did not immediately recognise the falseness of every word that the woman said to him, because he was slow and could not think and hear at the same time.”

— Anthony Trollope

408. “A newspaper that wishes to make its fortune should never waste its columns and weary its readers by praising anything.”

— Anthony Trollope

409. “With many women I doubt whether there be any more effectual wayof touching their hearts than ill-using them and then confessing it. If you wish to get the sweetest fragrance from the herb at your feet, tread on it and bruise it.”

— Anthony Trollope

410. “Beware of creating tedium!”

— Anthony Trollope

411. “It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.”

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412. “Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.”

— Anthony Trollope

413. “He has gone, Mamma,′ she said, as she entered the breakfast-room. ‘And now we’ll go back to our work-a-day ways. It has been all Sunday for me the last six weeks.”

— Anthony Trollope

414. “You guess. You’re always a-guessing. And because you know how to guess, they pays you for guessing. But guessing ain’t knowing. You don’t know; – nor yet don’t I.”

— Anthony Trollope

415. “Everything about her room betokened wealth; but she had put away the French novels, and had placed a Bible on a little table, not quite hidden, behind her own seat.”

— Anthony Trollope

416. “It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.”

— Anthony Trollope

417. “The heroes of life are so much better than the heroes of romance,” said Caroline.”

— Anthony Trollope

418. “How am I to tell you what he said? He talked nonsense about my beauty, as all the men do. If a woman were hump-backed, and had only one eye, they wouldn’t be ashamed to tell her she was a Venus.”

— Anthony Trollope

419. “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.”

— Anthony Trollope

420. “Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.”

— Anthony Trollope

421. “We used,” he said, “to endeavour to get someone to represent us in Parliament, who would agree with us on vital subjects, such as the Church of England and the necessity of religion. Now it seems to be considered ill-mannered to make any allusion to such subjects!”

— Anthony Trollope

422. “Ah, you think that anything naked must be indecent; even truth.”

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423. “He never quarreled with his wife, but he never talked to her; – he never had time to talk, he was so taken up with speaking.”

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424. “Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.”

— Anthony Trollope

425. “Great was the anger of Lady Arabella, loud were the protestations of the girl, mute the woe of her father, piteous the tears of her mother, inexorable the judgment of the Greshamsbury world. But.”

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426. “Believe me, my child, that Christian ministers are never called on by God’s word to insult the convictions, or even the prejudices of their brethren, and that religion is at any rate not less susceptible of urbane and courteous conduct among men than any other study which men may take up.”

— Anthony Trollope

427. “We get on now with a lighter step, and quicker: ridicule is found to be more convincing than argument, imaginary agonies touch more than true sorrows, and monthly novels convince, when learned quartos fail to do so.”

— Anthony Trollope

428. “I like everything old-fashioned,” said Eleanor; “old-fashioned things are so much the honestest.”

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429. “The more she was absolutely in need of external friendship, the more disposed was she to reject it, and to declare to herself that she was prepared to stand alone in the world.”

— Anthony Trollope

430. “In such families as his, when such results have been achieved, it is generally understood that matters shall be put right by an heiress. It has become an institution, like primogeniture, and is almost as serviceable for maintaining the proper order of things.”

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431. “A joke that required to be laughed at was, with him, not worth uttering. He could appreciate by a keener sense than that of his ears the success of his wit, and would see in the eyes of his audience whether or no he was understood and appreciated.”

— Anthony Trollope

432. “The facts, if not true, were well invented; the arguments, if not logical, were seductive.”

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433. “It was his misfortune, – and also his fault, – that he had submitted to be loved by a wild cat.”

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434. “Some men have a great gift of making money, but they can’t spend it. Others can’t put two shillings together, but they have a great talent for all sorts of outlay. I begin to think that my genius is wholly in the latter line.”

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435. “Now, now that she was older and perhaps wiser, love meant a partnership, in which each partner would be honest to the other, in which each would wish and strive for the other’s welfare, to that this their joint welfare might be insured. Then, in those early girlish days, it had meant a total abnegation of self. The one was of earth, and therefore possible. The other had been a ray from heaven, – and impossible, except in a dream.”

— Anthony Trollope

436. “Poor Mr. Smith, having been so rudely dragged from his high horse, was never able to mount it again, and completed the lecture in a manner not at all comfortable to himself.”

— Anthony Trollope

437. “Nothing perhaps is so efficacious in preventing men from marrying as the tone in which married women speak of the struggles made in that direction by their unmarried friends.”

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438. “She had no ambition to write a good book, but was painfully anxious to write a book that the critics should say was good.”

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439. “Whenever the circulation of such a paper begins to slacken, the proprietors should, as a matter of course, admonish their Alf to add a little power to the crushing department.”

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440. “It is probable that Tom Towers considered himself the most powerful man in Europe; and so he walked on from day to day, studiously striving to look a man, but knowing within his breast that he was a god.”

— Anthony Trollope