“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, quote from The Eustace Diamonds
“The persons whom you cannot care for in a novel, because they are so bad, are the very same that you so dearly love in your life, because they are so good.”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from The Eustace Diamonds
“I don't like anybody or anything," said Lucinda.
Yes, you do;--you like horses to ride, and dresses to wear.”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from The Eustace Diamonds
“The old family carriage and the two lady's maids were there,--as necessaries of life; but London society was not within her reach. It was therefore the case that they had not heard very much about Lizzie Eustace. But they had heard something. "I hope she won't be too fond of going out," said Amelia, the second girl.
"Or extravagant," said Georgina, the third.
"There was some story of her being terribly in debt when she married Sir Florian Eustace," said Diana, the fourth.
"Frederic will be sure to see to that," said Augusta, the eldest.
"She is very beautiful," said Lydia, the fifth.
"And clever," said Cecilia, the sixth.
"Beauty and cleverness won't make a good wife," said Amelia, who was the wise one of the family.
"Frederic will be sure to see that she doesn't go wrong," said Augusta who was not wise.”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from The Eustace Diamonds
“There was very much in the whole affair of which he would not be proud as he led his bride to the altar;--but a man does not expect to get four thousand pounds a year for nothing.”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from The Eustace Diamonds
“As man is never strong enough to take unmixed delight in good, so may we presume also that he cannot be quite so weak as to find perfect satisfaction in evil.”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from The Eustace Diamonds
“Everything about her room betokened wealth; but she had put away the French novels, and had placed a Bible on a little table, not quite hidden, behind her own seat.”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from The Eustace Diamonds
“Lord Fawn did not immediately recognise the falseness of every word that the woman said to him, because he was slow and could not think and hear at the same time.”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from The Eustace Diamonds
“A man captivated by wiles was only captivated for a time, whereas a man won by simplicity would be won forever - if he, himself, were worth the winning.”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from The Eustace Diamonds
“Lady Linlithgow, too, though very strong, was old. She was slow, or perhaps it might more properly be said she was stately in her movements.”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from The Eustace Diamonds
Anthony Trollope
Born place: in London, The United Kingdom
Born date April 24, 1815
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“There's this truth about mirrors. It's inescapable. But they can lie, too. They can distort the truth, even hide the truth. They create illusion.”
― Jodi Meadows, quote from The Mirror King
“When Ahsoka opened her hands, she was not surprised to find that two lightsabers, rough and unfinished, were waiting. They would need more work, but they were hers. When she turned them on, they shone the brightest white.”
― E.K. Johnston, quote from Ahsoka
“Home isn’t four walls, it’s the people you’re with.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Through the Dark
“Our father would return to see his fairest flower gone and only the weed left for him to use as he saw fit”
― E.K. Johnston, quote from A Thousand Nights
“It’s often said that cowards make the best torturers. Cowards have good imaginations, imaginations that torment them with all the worst stuff of nightmare, all the horrors that could befall them. This provides an excellent arsenal when it comes to inflicting misery on others. And their final qualification is that they understand the fears of their victim better than the victim does himself.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from Prince of Fools
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