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“The town horse, used to gaudy trappings, no doubt despises the work of his country brother; but yet, now and again, there comes upon him a sudden desire to plough.”

Anthony Trollope book The Prime Minister

Source: The Prime Minister (1876), Ch. 8

“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.”

Anthony Trollope book The Prime Minister

Source: The Prime Minister (1876), Ch. 37

“When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with so excellent a disposition.”

Anthony Trollope Framley Parsonage

Source: Framley Parsonage (1861), Ch. 1, first lines

“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.”

Anthony Trollope

Source: An Autobiography (1883), Ch. 10

“It is a remarkable thing with reference to men who are distressed for money… they never seem at a loss for small sums, or deny themselves those luxuries which small sums purchase. Cabs, dinners, wine, theatres, and new gloves are always at the command of men who are drowned in pecuniary embarrassments, whereas those who don't owe a shilling are so frequently obliged to go without them!”

Anthony Trollope Framley Parsonage

Framley Parsonage (1861)

“Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that is comes early.”

Anthony Trollope book Orley Farm

Source: Orley Farm (1862), Ch. 49

“As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.”

Anthony Trollope

Letter to G W Rusden (8 June 1876), published in The Letters of Anthony Trollope (1983), p. 691

“One of her instructors in fashion had given her to understand that curls were not the thing. "They'll always pass muster," Miss Dunstable had replied, "when they are done up with bank notes."”

Anthony Trollope book Doctor Thorne

Source: Doctor Thorne (1858), Ch. 16

“As will so often be the case when a men has a pen in his hand. It is like a club or sledge-hammer, — in using which, either for defence or attack, a man can hardly measure the strength of the blows he gives.”

Anthony Trollope

Source: An Autobiography (1883), Ch. 11

“Marvellous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.”

Anthony Trollope book Rachel Ray

Rachel Ray (1863), Ch. 11

“Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.”

Anthony Trollope

Vol. II, ch. 67
(1867)

“This was Barrington Erle, a politician of long standing, who was still looked upon by many as a young man, because he had always been known as a young man, and because he had never done anything to compromise his position in that respect. He had not married, or settled himself down in a house of his own, or become subject to the gout, or given up being careful about the fitting of his clothes.”

Anthony Trollope book The Prime Minister

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

“I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.”

Anthony Trollope Framley Parsonage

Source: Framley Parsonage (1861), Ch. 10

“There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.”

Anthony Trollope book Doctor Wortle's School

Doctor Wortle's School (1881) Ch. 6

“Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.”

Anthony Trollope

Source: North America (1862), Ch. 14

“I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards — When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.”

Anthony Trollope

Letter to G W Rusden (8 June 1876)

“He must have known me had he seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognise me by my face.”

Anthony Trollope

Source: An Autobiography (1883), Ch. 1

“But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?”

Anthony Trollope Framley Parsonage

Source: Framley Parsonage (1861), Ch. 26

“There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.”

Anthony Trollope book Doctor Thorne

Source: Doctor Thorne (1858), Ch. 18

“[An attorney] can find it consistent with his dignity to turn wrong into right, and right into wrong, to abet a lie, nay to create, disseminate, and with all the play of his wit, give strength to the basest of lies, on behalf of the basest of scoundrels.”

Anthony Trollope

The New Zealander (1965), p. 63; written 1855-6, published posthumously 1965