Anthony Trollope QUOTES

111 " Then in this country a man is to be punished or not, according to his ability to fee a lawyer! "

― Anthony Trollope , Complete Works of Anthony Trollope

113 " He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old. "

― Anthony Trollope , The Prime Minister (Palliser #5)

115 " Men and women ain't lumps of sugar. They don't melt because the water is sometimes warm. "

― Anthony Trollope , Can You Forgive Her? (Palliser, #1)

117 " As for reading, I doubt whether she did much better by the sea-side than she had done in the town. Men and women say that they will read, and think so—those, I mean, who have acquired no habit of reading—believing the work to be, of all works, the easiest. It may be work, they think, but of all works it must be the easiest of achievement. Given the absolute faculty of reading, the task of going through the pages of a book must be, of all tasks, the most certainly within the grasp of the man or woman who attempts it. Alas! no; if the habit be not there, of all tasks it is the most difficult. "

― Anthony Trollope , The Claverings

119 " Jacob was not in such a hurry when he wished for Rachel.” “That was all very well for an old patriarch who had seven or eight hundred years to live.” “My dear John, you forget your Bible. Jacob did not live half as long as that. "

― Anthony Trollope , Complete Works of Anthony Trollope