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61 " They say that faint heart never won fair lady. It is amazing to me how fair ladies are won, so faint are often men's hearts! "
― Anthony Trollope , The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
62 " But no one can rid himself of the preaching clergyman. He is the bore of the age, the old man whom we Sinbads cannot shake off, the nightmare that disturbs our Sunday's rest, the incubus that overloads our religion and makes God's service distasteful. "
― Anthony Trollope
63 " ... In what I do I may appear to be interfering with you, and I hope you will forgive me for doing so. "
64 " Let us presume that Barchester is a quiet town in the West of England, more remarkable for the beauty of its cathedral and the antiquity of its monuments than for any commercial prosperity; that the west end of Barchester is the cathedral close, and that the aristocracy of Barchester are the bishop, dean, and canons, with their respective wives and daughters. "
65 " The love of titles is common to all men, and a vicar or a fellow is as pleased at becoming Mr. Archdeacon or Mr. Provost, as a lieutenant at getting his captaincy, or a city tallow-chandler in becoming Sir John on the occasion of a Queen’s visit to a new bridge. "
66 " Of course he had committed forgery;--of course he had committed robbery. That, indeed, was nothing, for he had been cheating and forging and stealing all his life. "
― Anthony Trollope , The Way We Live Now
67 " Buying and selling is good and necessary; it is very necessary, and may, possibly, be very good; but it cannot be the noblest work of man; and let us hope that it may not in our time be esteemed the noblest work of an Englishman. "
― Anthony Trollope , Dr. Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire #3)
68 " Some men have a great gift of making money, but they can't spend it. Others can't put two shillings together, but they have a great talent for all sorts of outlay. I begin to think that my genius is wholly in the latter line. "
― Anthony Trollope , Barchester Towers
69 " What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil? "
70 " 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. "
― Anthony Trollope , The Eustace Diamonds (Palliser, #3)
71 " The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade. "
72 " This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live. "
73 " Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it. "
74 " Of all needs a book has, the chief need is to be readable. "
75 " Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower. "
76 " Above all else, never think you're not good enough. "
77 " There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily. "
78 " Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret. "
― Anthony Trollope , He Knew He Was Right
79 " I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men. "
80 " I hate a stupid man who can't talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect. I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . . A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can't show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout. "
― Anthony Trollope , Phineas Finn (Palliser, #2)