Anthony Trollope citations (129 citations, Page 3)

The Bertrams (1859), Ch. 5 http://books.google.com/books?id=BKwxAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Those+who+have+courage+to+love+should+have+courage+to+suffer%22&pg=PA77#v=onepage

“Because we have been removing restraints on Papal aggression, while other nations have been imposing restraints. There are those at Rome who believe all England to be Romish at heart, because here in England a Roman Catholic can say what he will, and print what he will.”

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Anthony Trollope livre The Prime Minister

Source: The Prime Minister (1876), Ch. 12

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

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Anthony Trollope livre Barchester Towers

Source: Barchester Towers (1857), Ch. 9

“The Duke, always right in his purpose but generally wrong in his practice, had stayed at home working all the morning, thereby scandalising the strict, and had gone to church alone in the afternoon, thereby offending the social.”

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Anthony Trollope livre The Prime Minister

Source: The Prime Minister (1876), Ch. 20

“It is easy for most of us to keep our hands from picking and stealing when picking and stealing plainly lead to prison diet and prison garments. But when silks and satins come of it, and with the silks and satins general respect, the net result of honesty does not seem to be so secure.”

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Anthony Trollope livre The Prime Minister

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

“There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.”

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Is He Popenjoy? (1878), Ch. 18

“I am ready to obey as a child; — but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.”

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Anthony Trollope livre The Prime Minister

Source: The Prime Minister (1876), Ch. 9

“Each thought himself, especially since this last promotion, to be indispensably necessary to the formation of London society, and was comfortable in the conviction that he had thoroughly succeeded in life by acquiring the privilege of sitting down to dinner three times a week with peers and peeresses.”

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Anthony Trollope livre The Prime Minister

Source: The Prime Minister (1876), Ch. 20

“Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear”

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Anthony Trollope Framley Parsonage

Source: Framley Parsonage (1861), Ch. 21

“The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.”

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Anthony Trollope livre He Knew He Was Right

He Knew He Was Right (1869), Ch. 60

“I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.”

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Anthony Trollope livre The Small House at Allington

Source: The Small House at Allington (1864), Ch. 4

“She certainly had a little syllogism in her head as to the Duke ruling the borough, the Duke's wife ruling the Duke, and therefore the Duke's wife ruling the borough; but she did not think it prudent to utter this on the present occasion.”

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Anthony Trollope livre The Prime Minister

Source: The Prime Minister (1876), Ch. 21

“A man's mind will very generally refuse to make itself up until it be driven and compelled by emergency.”

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Anthony Trollope livre Ayala's Angel

Ayala's Angel (1881), Ch. 41

“Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.”

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Anthony Trollope Miss Mackenzie

Miss Mackenzie, Ch. 13. (1865) · Project Gutenburg e-text http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24000

“The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; — a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.”

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Anthony Trollope livre The Prime Minister

Source: The Prime Minister (1876), Ch. 5

“Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular? Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?”

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Anthony Trollope Miss Mackenzie

Miss Mackenzie (1865), Ch. 17

“The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.”

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Anthony Trollope livre Barchester Towers

Source: Barchester Towers (1857), Ch. 53

“She knew how to allure by denying, and to make the gift rich by delaying it.”

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Anthony Trollope livre Phineas Finn

Source: Phineas Finn (1869), Ch. 57

“In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.”

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Anthony Trollope livre Doctor Thorne

Source: Doctor Thorne (1858), Ch. 25

“Money is neither god nor devil, that it should make one noble and another vile. It is an accident, and if honestly possessed, may pass from you to me, or from me to you, without a stain.”

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Anthony Trollope livre Phineas Finn

Ch. 72 http://books.google.com/books?id=Jy1MAAAAcAAJ&q=%22Money+is+neither+god+nor+devil+that+it+should+make+one+noble+and+another+vile+It+is+an+accident+and+if+honestly+possessed+may+pass+from+you+to+me+or+from+me+to+you+without+stain%22&pg=PA269#v=onepage, St. Paul's Magazine, April 1869 http://books.google.com/books?id=wkBJAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Money+is+neither+god+nor+devil+that+it+should+make+one+noble+and+another+vile+It+is+an+accident+and+if+honestly+possessed+may+pass+from+you+to+me+or+from+me+to+you+without+stain%22&pg=PA126#v=onepage <br class="br">Phineas Finn (1869)

“It's dogged as does it. It's not thinking about it.”

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Vol. II, ch. 61
(1867)

“I would recommend all men in choosing a profession to avoid any that may require an apology at every turn; either an apology or else a somewhat violent assertion of right.”

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Anthony Trollope Framley Parsonage

Source: Framley Parsonage (1861), Ch. 15

“He never went very far astray in his official business, because he always obeyed the clerks and followed precedents.”

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Anthony Trollope livre The Prime Minister

Source: The Prime Minister (1876), Ch. 20