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The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1) QUOTES

The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1) QUOTES

1 " It is probable that Tom Towers considered himself the most powerful man in Europe; and so he walked on from day to day, studiously striving to look a man, but knowing within his breast that he was a god. "

― Anthony Trollope , The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

2 " Of all such reformers Mr. Sentiment is the most powerful. It is incredible the number of evil practices he has put down: it is to be feared he will soon lack subjects and that when he has made the working classes comfortable, and got bitter beer put into proper-sized pint bottles, there will be nothing further for him left to do. Mr. Sentiment is certainly a very powerful man, and perhaps not the less so that his good poor people are so very good; his hard rich people so very hard; and the genuinely honest so very honest. Namby-pamby in these days is not thrown away if it be introduced in the proper quarters. Divine peeresses are no longer interesting, though possessed of every virtue; but a pattern peasant or an immaculate manufacturing hero may talk as much twaddle as one of Mrs. Ratcliffe's heroines, and still be listened to. Perhaps, however, Mr. Sentiment's great attraction is in his second-rate characters. If his heroes and heroines walk upon stilts as heroes and heroines, I fear, ever must, their attendant satellites are as natural as though one met them in the street: they walk and talk like men and women, and live among our friends a rattling, lively life — yes, live, and will live till the names of their callings shall be forgotten in their own, and Buckett and Mrs. Gamp will be the only words left to us to signify detective police officer or a monthly nurse. "

― Anthony Trollope , The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

3 " He never quarreled with his wife, but he never talked to her;--he never had time to talk, he was so taken up with speaking. "

― Anthony Trollope , The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

4 " It is much less difficult for the sufferer to be generous than for the oppressor. "

― Anthony Trollope , The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

5 " The breakfast-service on the table was equally costly and equally plain; the apparent object had been to spend money without obtaining brilliancy or splendour. "

― Anthony Trollope , The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

6 " 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)

7 " ... In what I do I may appear to be interfering with you, and I hope you will forgive me for doing so. "

― Anthony Trollope , The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

8 " 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. "

― Anthony Trollope , The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

9 " What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil? "

― Anthony Trollope , The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

10 " Did you ever know a poor man made better by law or a lawyer!' said Bunce bitterly. "

― Anthony Trollope , The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

11 " She had no startling brilliancy of beauty, no pearly whiteness, no radiant carnation. She had not the majestic contour that rivets attention, demands instant wonder, and then disappoints by the coldness of its charms. You might pass Eleanor Harding in the street without notice, but you could hardly pass an evening with her and not lose your heart. "

― Anthony Trollope , The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

12 " He took such high ground that there was no getting on to it. "

― Anthony Trollope , The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

13 " A clergyman generally dislikes to be met in argument by any scriptural quotation; he feels as affronted as a doctor does, when recommended by an old woman to take some favourite dose, "

― Anthony Trollope , The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

14 " What had passed between Eleanor Harding and Mary Bold need not be told. It is indeed a matter of thankfulness that neither the historian nor the novelist hears all that is said by their heroes or heroines, or how would three volumes or twenty suffice! "

― Anthony Trollope , The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

15 " He (The warden) was painfully afraid of a disagreement with any person in any subject....he felt horror at the thought of being made the subject of common gossip and public criticism. "

― Anthony Trollope , The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

16 " What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee? "

― Anthony Trollope , The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

17 " You might pass Eleanor Harding in the street without notice, but you could hardly pass an evening with her and not lose your heart. "

― Anthony Trollope , The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

18 " (John Bold said): If an action is the right one, personal feelings must not be allowed to interfere. Of course I greatly like Mr Harding, but that is no reason for failing in my duty to those old men. "

― Anthony Trollope , The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

19 " In former times great objects were attained by great work. When evils were to be reformed, reformers set about their heavy task with grave decorum and laborious argument. An age was occupied in proving a grievance, and philosophical researches were printed in folio pages, which it took a life to write, and an eternity to read. We get on now with a lighter step, and quicker: ridicule is found to be more convincing than argument, imaginary agonies touch more than true sorrows, "

― Anthony Trollope , The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

20 " The bishop did not whistle. We believe that they lose the power of doing so on being consecrated; and that in these days one might as easily meet a corrupt judge as a whistling bishop; but he looked as though he would have done so, but for his apron. "

― Anthony Trollope , The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)