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Anthony Trollope was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. He also wrote novels on political, social, and gender issues, and other topical matters.Trollope's literary reputation dipped somewhat during the last years of his life, but he had regained the esteem of critics by the mid-20th century. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. April 1815 – 6. December 1882
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Anthony Trollope Quotes

“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

“"I can never bring myself to believe it, John," said Mary Walker, the pretty daughter of Mr. George Walker, attorney, of Silverbridge.”

Anthony Trollope

First lines
(1867)

“No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed over to others.”

Anthony Trollope book The Duke's Children

Source: The Duke's Children (1879), Ch. 66

“It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.”

Anthony Trollope book Phineas Finn

Source: Phineas Finn (1869), Ch. 13

“The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.”

Anthony Trollope

Vol. I, ch. 32
(1867)

“She understood how much louder a cock can crow in his own farmyard than elsewhere.”

Anthony Trollope book The Last Chronicle of Barset

Vol. I, ch. 17
The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867)

“From all evil against which the law bars you, you should be barred, at an infinite distance, by honour, by conscience, and nobility. Does the law require patriotism, philanthropy, self-abnegation, public service, purity of purpose, devotion to the needs of others who have been placed in the world below you? The law is a great thing, — because men are poor and weak, and bad. And it is great, because where it exists in its strength, no tyrant can be above it. 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.”

Anthony Trollope book The Duke's Children

Source: The Duke's Children (1879), Ch. 61

“Next to a sum of money down, a grievance is the best thing you can have. A man who can stick to a grievance year after year will always make money out of it at last.”

Anthony Trollope

Source: John Caldigate, Ch. 53