“Conduct! Is conduct everything? One may conduct oneself excellently, and yet break one's heart.”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from Dr. Thorne
“Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can. They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from Dr. Thorne
“Mary, it must be remembered, was very nearly of the same age as Frank; but, as I and others have so often said before, 'Women grow on the sunny side of the wall.”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from Dr. Thorne
“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, quote from Dr. Thorne
“The castle itself was a huge brick pile, built in the days of William III., which, though they were grand days for the construction of the constitution, were not very grand for architecture of a more material description.”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from Dr. Thorne
“such was the beauty of the landscape, that a lover of scenery would be tempted thus to lose himself.”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from Dr. Thorne
“Rest and quiet are the comforts of those who have been content to remain in obscurity.”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from Dr. Thorne
“Oh! do look at Miss Oriel's bonnet the next time you see her. I cannot understand why it should be so, but I am sure of this—no English fingers could put together such a bonnet as that; and I am nearly sure that no French fingers could do it in England.”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from Dr. Thorne
“Sell yourself for money! why, if I were a man I would not sell one jot of liberty for mountains of gold. What! tie myself in the heyday of my youth to a person I could never love, for a price! perjure myself, destroy myself—and not only myself, but her also, in order that I might live idly! Oh, heavens! Mr Gresham! can it be that the words of such a woman as your aunt have sunk so deeply in your heart; have blackened you so foully as to make you think of such vile folly as this? Have you forgotten your soul, your spirit, your man's energy, the treasure of your heart? And you, so young! For shame, Mr Gresham! for shame—for shame.”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from Dr. Thorne
“Great was the anger of Lady Arabella, loud were the protestations of the girl, mute the woe of her father, piteous the tears of her mother, inexorable the judgment of the Greshamsbury world. But”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from Dr. Thorne
“England a commercial country! Yes; as Venice was. She may excel other nations in commerce, but yet it is not that in which she most prides herself, in which she most excels. Merchants as such are not the first men among us; though it perhaps be open, barely open, to a merchant to become one of them. 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, quote from Dr. Thorne
“...[A]ll manner of marriages are considered to be comme il faut.”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from Dr. Thorne
“Wounds sometimes must be opened in order that they may be healed.”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from Dr. Thorne
“He had a pride in being a poor man of a high family; he had a pride in repudiating the very family of which he was proud; and he had a special pride in keeping his pride silently to himself.”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from Dr. Thorne
“but things had arranged themselves, as they often do, rather than been arranged by him.”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from Dr. Thorne
“All the world feels that a man when married acquires some of the attributes of an old woman—he”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from Dr. Thorne
“the principal duty which a parent owed to a child was to make him happy. Not”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from Dr. Thorne
“Frank Gresham, when twitted with being a Whig, foreswore the de Courcy family; and then, when ridiculed as having been thrown over by the Tories, foreswore his father’s old friends. So”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from Dr. Thorne
Anthony Trollope
Born place: in London, The United Kingdom
Born date April 24, 1815
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“He wasn't the type for displays of affection, either verbal or not. He was disgusted by couples that made out in the hallways between classes, and got annoyed at even the slightest sappy moments in movies. But I knew he cared about me: he just conveyed it more subtly, as concise with expressing this emotion as he was with everything else. It was in the way he'd put his hand on the small of my back, for instance, or how he'd smile at me when I said something that surprised him. Once I might have wanted more, but I'd come around to his way of thinking in the time we'd been together. And we were together, all the time. So he didn't have to prove how he felt about me. Like so much else, I should just know.”
― Sarah Dessen, quote from The Truth About Forever
“Find the best in everybody. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out.”
― Randy Pausch, quote from The Last Lecture
“My grandmother was fifteen the day of the roundup. She was told she was free because they were only taking small children between two and twelve with their parents. She was left behind. And they took all the others. Her little brothers, her little sister, her mother, her father, her aunt, her uncle. Her grandparents. It was the last time she ever saw them. No one came back No one at all.”
― Tatiana de Rosnay, quote from Sarah's Key
“Ein Zeug »ist« strenggenommen nie. Zum Sein von Zeug gehört je immer ein Zeugganzes, darin es dieses Zeug sein kann, das es ist. Zeug ist wesenhaft »etwas, um zu..«.”
― Martin Heidegger, quote from Being and Time
“While tentbound high on Everest, Mallory and his companions would read aloud to one another from Hamlet and King Lear”
― Jon Krakauer, quote from Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
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