Quotes from book

The Warden

“What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?… Was ever anything so civil?”

Anthony Trollope book The Warden

Source: The Warden

“The Rev. Septimus Harding was, a few years since, a beneficed clergyman residing in the cathedral town of _____; let us call it Barchester. Were we to name Wells or Salisbury, Exeter, Hereford, or Gloucester, it might be presumed that something personal was intended; and as this tale will refer mainly to the cathedral dignitaries of the of the town in question, we are anxious that no personality may be suspected.”

Anthony Trollope book The Warden

Source: The Warden (1855), Ch. 1, first lines

“He was not so anxious to prove himself right, as to be so.”

Anthony Trollope book The Warden

Source: The Warden (1855), Ch. 3

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

Anthony Trollope book The Warden

Source: The Warden (1855), Ch. 14