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“Had some inscrutable decree of fate ordained and made it certain, with a certainty not to be disturbed, that no candidate could be returned to Parliament who would not assert the earth to be triangular, there would rise immediately a clamorous assertion of triangularity among political aspirants. The test would be innocent. Candidates have swallowed, and daily do swallow, many a worse one. As might be this doctrine of a great triangle, so is the doctrine of Home Rule. Why is a gentleman of property to be kept out in the cold by some O'Mullins because he will not mutter an unmeaning shibboleth? "Triangular? Yes, or lozenge-shaped, if you please; but, gentleman, I am the man for Tipperary."”

Anthony Trollope book The Prime Minister

Source: The Prime Minister (1876), Ch. 11

“Does not all the world know that when in autumn the Bismarcks of the world, or they who are bigger than Bismarcks, meet at this or that delicious haunt of salubrity, the affairs of the world are then settled in little conclaves, with grater ease, rapidity, and certainty than in large parliaments or the dull chambers of public offices?”

Anthony Trollope book The Prime Minister

Source: The Prime Minister (1876), Ch. 20

“The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.”

Anthony Trollope

Thackeray (1879), Ch. 2

“Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.”

Anthony Trollope

Source: An Autobiography (1883), Ch. 5

“There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.”

Anthony Trollope book Barchester Towers

Source: Barchester Towers (1857), Ch. 20; this derives from an expression attributed to Euclid.

“I hold that gentleman to be the best dressed whose dress no one observes. I am not sure but that the same may be said of an author's written language.”

Anthony Trollope

Thackeray, Ch. 9

“Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.”

Anthony Trollope

Source: An Autobiography (1883), Ch. 15

“She had married a vulgar man; and, though she had not become like the man, she had become vulgar.”

Anthony Trollope book The Prime Minister

Source: The Prime Minister (1876), Ch. 5

“Aid from heaven you may have," he said, "by saying your prayers; and I don't doubt you ask for this and all other things generally. But an angel won't come to tell you who ought to be Chancellor of the Exchequer.”

Anthony Trollope book The Prime Minister

Source: The Prime Minister (1876), Ch. 7

“I always thought there was very little wit wanted to make a fortune in the City.”

Anthony Trollope book The Prime Minister

Source: The Prime Minister (1876), Ch. 10

“There is such a difference between life and theory.”

Anthony Trollope book Phineas Finn

Source: Phineas Finn (1869), Ch. 40

“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.”

Anthony Trollope book The Duke's Children

Source: The Duke's Children (1879), Ch. 71

“Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century.”

Anthony Trollope

Source: An Autobiography (1883), Ch. 6

“The tenth Muse who now governs the periodical press.”

Anthony Trollope book The Warden

Source: The Warden (1855), Ch. 14

“To be alone with the girl to whom he is not engaged, is a man's delight; — to be alone with the man to whom she is engaged is the woman's.”

Anthony Trollope book The Eustace Diamonds

The Eustace Diamonds, Ch. 18

“In the latter days of July in the year 185-, a most important question was for ten days hourly asked in the cathedral city of Barchester, and answered every hour in various ways — Who was to be the new Bishop?”

Anthony Trollope book Barchester Towers

First lines
Barchester Towers (1857)

“There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance; a feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, — and always to plead it successfully.”

Anthony Trollope book Orley Farm

Source: Orley Farm (1862), Ch. 8

“It was admitted by all her friends, and also by her enemies — who were in truth the more numerous and active body of the two — that Lizzie Greystock had done very well with herself.”

Anthony Trollope book The Eustace Diamonds

The Eustace Diamonds (1873) First lines

“Of course there was a Great House at Allington. How otherwise should there have been a Small House?”

Anthony Trollope book The Small House at Allington

Source: The Small House at Allington (1864), Ch. 1, first lines

“Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors.”

Anthony Trollope

Source: An Autobiography (1883), Ch. 6