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Palliser Novels QUOTES

Palliser Novels QUOTES

1 " What could she do with a man who had no ideas of his own as to what he ought to do with himself? "

― Anthony Trollope , Palliser Novels

2 " A girl almost always likes a man who is in love with her,—unless indeed she positively dislikes him. "

― Anthony Trollope , Palliser Novels

3 " he understood well that code of by-laws which was presumed to constitute the character of a gentleman in his circle. "

― Anthony Trollope , Palliser Novels

4 " As a portrait should be like the person portrayed, so should a representative House be like the people whom it represents. Nor in arranging a franchise does it seem to me that we have a right to regard any other view. If a country be unfit for representative "

― Anthony Trollope , Palliser Novels

5 " She had known his faults and weaknesses, and was probably aware that he was inferior to herself in character and intellect. But, nevertheless, she had loved him. To her he had been, though not heroic, sufficiently a man to win her heart. He was a gentleman, pleasant-mannered, pleasant to look at, pleasant to talk to, not educated in the high sense of the word, but never making himself ridiculous by ignorance. "

― Anthony Trollope , Palliser Novels