Anthony Trollope: Trending quotes

Source: The Duke's Children (1879), Ch. 48
Context: "I think it is so glorious," said the American. "There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality. That is what father says. What men ought to want is liberty."

World

“Speak to me of honour, of duty, and of nobility; and tell me what they require of you.”

Anthony Trollope book The Duke's Children

Source: The Duke's Children (1879), Ch. 61
Context: But between you and me there should be no mention of law as the guide of conduct. Speak to me of honour, of duty, and of nobility; and tell me what they require of you.

“But how shall I excuse it? There are things done which are as holy as the heavens, — which are clear before God as the light of the sun, which leave no stain on the conscience, and which yet the malignity of man can invest with the very blackness of hell!”

Anthony Trollope book The Prime Minister

Source: The Prime Minister (1876), Ch. 42

God , Hell , Light , Sun

“It would seem that the full meaning of the word marriage can never be known by those who, at their first outspring into life, are surrounded by all that money can give.”

Anthony Trollope

Source: The Bertrams (1859), Ch. 30
Context: It would seem that the full meaning of the word marriage can never be known by those who, at their first outspring into life, are surrounded by all that money can give. It requires the single sitting-room, the single fire, the necessary little efforts of self-devotion, the inward declaration that some struggle shall be made for that other one.

Life , Money , Marriage

“That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.”

Anthony Trollope

Reading , Happiness

“Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.”

Anthony Trollope book Barchester Towers

Source: Barchester Towers (1857), Ch. 38

Love

“To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.”

Anthony Trollope book The Eustace Diamonds

Source: The Eustace Diamonds

God

“The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will be there to support you when all other resources are gone. It will be present to you when the energies of your body have fallen away from you. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.”

Anthony Trollope

As quoted in Forbes (April 1948), p. 42
Variant: The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will be there to support you when all other resources are gone. . . . It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.

Pleasure , Support , Reading

“She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.”

Anthony Trollope book Can You Forgive Her?

Source: Can You Forgive Her?

Madness

“Above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning.”

Anthony Trollope book The Small House at Allington

Source: The Small House at Allington (1864), Ch. 32

Life , People , Thinking

“There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.”

Anthony Trollope book Barchester Towers

Source: Barchester Towers (1857), Ch. 27