Anthony Trollope Quotes

A woman's weapon is her tongue.

The tenth Muse who now governs the periodical press.

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.

She well knew the great architectural secret of decorating her constructions, and never descended to construct a decoration.

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.

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.

To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.

Her virtues were too numerous to describe, and not sufficiently interesting to deserve description.

One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.

The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion

There are things that will not have themselves buried and put out of sight, as though they had never been.

Throughout the world, the more wrong a man does, the more indignant is he at wrong done to him.

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.

It was one of the tenets of her life — the strongest, perhaps, of all those doctrines on which she built her faith — that this world is a world of woe; that wailing and suffering, if not gnashing of teeth, is and should be the condition of mankind preparatory to eternal bliss.

I sometimes think you despise poetry,' said Phineas.
'When it is false I do. The difficulty is to know when it is false and when it is true.