# Anthony Trollope

- Quotes: 187
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope

## Books

- [Barchester Towers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope/barchester-towers.md) — 8 quotes
- [Doctor Thorne](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope/doctor-thorne.md) — 4 quotes
- [Framley Parsonage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope/framley-parsonage.md) — 9 quotes
- [Phineas Finn](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope/phineas-finn.md) — 4 quotes
- [Phineas Redux](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope/phineas-redux.md) — 120 quotes
- [The Duke's Children](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope/the-dukes-children.md) — 6 quotes
- [The Prime Minister](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope/the-prime-minister.md) — 28 quotes
- [The Small House at Allington](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope/the-small-house-at-allington.md) — 5 quotes
- [The Warden](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope/the-warden.md) — 3 quotes

## Recently added quotes

> No doubt there were other first cousins as badly off, or perhaps worse, as to whom the Duchess would care nothing whether they were rich or poor, — married or single; but then they were first cousins who had not had the advantage of interesting the Duchess.

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> “Isn‘t there some trouble about money?”
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> “They wouldn‘t be very rich, Duchess.”
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> “What a blessing for them! But then, perhaps, they‘d be very poor.”
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> “They would be rather poor.”
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> “Which is not a blessing.”

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> The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so.

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> The property of manliness in a man is a great possession, but perhaps there is none that is less understood, — which is more generally accorded where it does not exist, nor more frequently disallowed where it prevails.

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> “He is such a gentleman; — and, at the same time, the most abstract and the most concrete man that I know.”
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> “Abstract and concrete!”
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> “You are bound to use adjectives of that sort now, Miss Palliser, if you mean to be anybody in conversation.”

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> I never believe anything that a lawyer says when he has a wig on his head and a fee in his hand. I prepare myself beforehand to regard it all as mere words, supplied at so much the thousand. I know he‘ll say whatever he thinks most likely to forward his own views.

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> “Not in the least. I have but one ambition.”
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> “And that is — ?”
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> “To be the serviceable slave of my country.”
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> “A master is more serviceable than a slave,” said the old man.
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> “No; no; I deny it. I can admit much from you, but I cannot admit that. The politician who becomes the master of his country sinks from the statesman to the tyrant.”

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> I don't much admire your taste, my dear, because he‘s a hundred and fifty years old; — and what there is of him comes chiefly from the tailor.

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> “Would that be justice, ladies?” asked the just man.
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> “It would be success, Mr. Low, — which is a great deal the better thing of the two.”

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> The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.

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> Your nature is decimals. I run after units.

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> I know very well that if you get men who are really, — really swells, for that is what it is, Mr. Low, — and pay them well enough, and so make it really an important thing, they can browbeat any judge and hoodwink any jury.

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