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“On ne trouve jamais que l’embarras est pour rien quand l’embarras est fait pour soi […].”

Les Bertram ('), 1859

Anthony Trollope: Citations en anglais

“One doesn't have an agreement to that effect written down on parchment and sealed; but it is as well understood and ought to be as faithfully kept as any legal contract.”

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Anthony Trollope livre The Prime Minister

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

“He could find no cure for his grief; but he did know that continued occupation would relieve him, and therefore he occupied himself continually.”

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The Life of Cicero (1880)

“Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.”

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Source: North America (1862), Ch. 14

“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.”

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Anthony Trollope livre The Small House at Allington

Source: The Small House at Allington (1864), Ch. 14

“Sir Timothy was a fluent speaker, and when there was nothing to be said was possessed of a great plenty of words. And he was gifted with that peculiar power which enables a man to have the last word in every encounter, — a power which we are apt to call repartee, which is in truth the readiness which comes from continual practice. You shall meet two men of whom you shall know the one to be endowed with the brilliancy of true genius, and the other to be possessed of but moderate parts, and shall find the former never able to hold his own against the latter. In a debate, the man of moderate parts will seem to be greater than the man of genius. But this skill of tongue, this glibness of speech is hardly an affair of intellect at all. It is, — as is style to the writer, — not the wares which he has to take to market, but the vehicle in which they may be carried. Of what avail to you is it to have filled granaries with corn if you cannot get your corn to the consumer? Now Sir Timothy was a great vehicle, but he had not in truth much corn to send.”

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Anthony Trollope livre The Duke's Children

Source: The Duke's Children (1879), Ch. 26

“Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbours among whom, our doctor followed his profession.”

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Anthony Trollope livre Doctor Thorne

First lines
Doctor Thorne (1858)

“The affair simply amounted to this, that they were to eat their dinner uncomfortably in a field instead of comfortably in the dining room.”

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On a picnic, in Can You Forgive Her? (1864), Ch. 78

“Needless to deny that the normal London plumber is a dishonest man. We do not even allow ourselves to think so. That question, as to the dishonesty of mankind generally, is one that disturbs us greatly; — whether a man in all grades of life will by degrees train his honesty to suit his own book, so that the course of life which he shall bring himself to regard as soundly honest shall, if known to his neighbours, subject him to their reproof. We own to a doubt whether the honesty of a bishop would shine bright as the morning star to the submissive ladies who now worship him, if the theory of life upon which he lives were understood by them in all its bearings.”

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The Plumber (1880)

“I know no place at which an Englishman may drop down suddenly among a pleasanter circle of acquaintance, or find himself with a more clever set of men, than he can do at Boston.”

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Source: North America (1862), Ch. 2

“A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to every one else.”

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Anthony Trollope Framley Parsonage

Source: Framley Parsonage (1861), Ch. 10

“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.”

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Anthony Trollope livre 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.”

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Anthony Trollope livre 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.”

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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.”

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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!”

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Framley Parsonage (1861)

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

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Anthony Trollope livre 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.”

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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."”

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Anthony Trollope livre 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.”

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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.”

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Anthony Trollope livre 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.”

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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.”

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Anthony Trollope livre 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.”

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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.”

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Anthony Trollope livre 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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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Source: An Autobiography (1883), Ch. 1

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

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Anthony Trollope Framley Parsonage

Source: Framley Parsonage (1861), Ch. 26

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

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Anthony Trollope livre 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.”

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

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