Anthony Trollope Quotes

“Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage.”

― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

topic:love marriage

“Men will love to the last, but they love what is fresh and new. A woman's love can live on the recollection of the past, and cling to what is old and ugly.”

― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

topic:love women men

“All the elegancies and outward charms of life were delightful, if only they could be used as the means to some end. As an end themselves they were nothing.”

― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

topic:life

“But mad people never do die. That's a well-known fact. They've nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.”

― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

topic:death madness

“He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he knew how to speak the truth.”

― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

topic:truth speech

“An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.”

― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

topic:friendship enemy

“To oblige a friend by inflicting an injury on his enemy is often more easy than to confer a benefit on the friend himself.”

― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

topic:friendship enemy

“But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,—cannot be altogether men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury...”

― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

“A poet doesn't want to marry a poetess, nor a philosopher a philosopheress.”

― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

“People go on quarrelling and fancying this and that, and thinking that the world is full of romance and poetry. When they get married they know better.”

― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

topic:marriage romance poetry

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