Anthony Trollope

But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.

He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden.

He had married, let us say for love; — probably very much by chance.

Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder, the concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?

But the prospect of an explanation, — or otherwise of a flight, — between two leading politicians will fill the House; and any allusion to our Eastern Empire will certainly empty it.

We can generally read a man’s purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us.

In political matters it is very hard for a man in office to be purer than his neighbours, — and, when he is so, he becomes troublesome.

Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.

No doubt he had acted in direct opposition to the spirit of the injunction, but legal orders are read by the letter, and not by the spirit.

They were always together, but I dare say it was Platonic. I believe these kind of things generally are Platonic.

It had been known to all the world, — that at every election Mr. Browborough had bought his seat. How should a Browborough get a seat without buying it, — a man who could not say ten words, of no family, with no natural following in any constituency, distinguished by no zeal in politics, entertaining no special convictions of his own? How should such a one recommend himself to any borough unless he went there with money in his hand? Of course, he had gone to Tankerville with money in his hand, with plenty of money, and had spent it like a gentleman.

Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.