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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
By Anthony Trollope
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony; that is, of course, provided that the aspirant declines the slow cour...
By Anthony Trollope
The Lady Amelia would not for worlds have had the de Courcy blood defiled; but gold she thought could not defile.
By Anthony Trollope
The body was still resting on its legs, leaning against the end of the side of the bed, while one of the arms was close clasped round the bed-...
By Anthony Trollope
That girls should not marry for money we are all agreed. A lady who can sell herself for a title or an estate, for an income or a set of famil...
By Anthony Trollope
She would love still, but she would never again be tender till her daughter should have repudiated her base,—her monstrous engagement.
By Anthony Trollope
She, too, would now swim down the river of matrimony with a beautiful name, and a handle to it, as the owner of a fine family property. Women'...
By Anthony Trollope
Some are going out to join their husbands, some to find a husband, some few peradventure to leave a husband.
By Anthony Trollope
One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be consci...
By Anthony Trollope
Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
By Anthony Trollope
Oh! that's in course—I do love him; why wouldn't I? for he has a nice little room all decently furnished for any young woman to go into—be...
By Anthony Trollope
Marvellous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gif...
By Anthony Trollope
It is the highest and most legitimate pride of an Englishman to have the letters M.P. written after his name. No selection from the alphabet, ...
By Anthony Trollope
It was not death he feared—it was the disgrace of death, and the misery of the ignominious preparations. He knew in his heart that heaven co...
By Anthony Trollope
It does not come to a man that to be separated from a woman is to be dislocated from his very self. A man has but one centre, and that is hims...
By Anthony Trollope
It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
By Anthony Trollope
It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, an...
By Anthony Trollope
It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.
By Anthony Trollope
In spite of all her faults her name was so holy to him that it had never once passed his lips since her death, except in low whispers to himse...
By Anthony Trollope
In that reconciling of God and Mammon which Mrs. Grantly had carried on so successfully in the education of her daughter, the organ had not be...
By Anthony Trollope
I should like a lover to think of the things that I think about. It is all very well being steady when you have got babies of your own; but th...
By Anthony Trollope
I do like a little romance ... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys.... Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The roc...
By Anthony Trollope