Heart Quotes by Anthony Trollope

10 Heart quotes by Anthony Trollope

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Trollope’s prose often explores the social currents of the heart, and these ten lines provide a succinct taste of his measured, observant style. Even in a small set, his keen eye for human connection is evident.

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“acquired the knack of spreading all she knew very thin, so that it might cover a vast surface.”

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High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.

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She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity…

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“How constantly in her triumph would she be able to forget all his vices, his debts, his gambling, his late hours, and…

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“The more she was absolutely in need of external friendship, the more disposed was she to reject it, and to declare to…

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Gentlemen lacking substantial sympathy with their leader found it to be comfortable to deceive themselves, and raise their hearts at the same…

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With many women I doubt whether there be any more effectual wayof touching their hearts than ill-using them and then confessing it.…

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“Though she hardly knew how to explain the matter even to herself, she was sure that there was at present a general…

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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance; a feeling of having been injured, on which…

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“but she smiled and whispered, and made confidences, and looked out of her own eyes into men’s eyes as though there might…

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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

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You men find so many angels in your travels. You have been honester than some. You have generally been off with the old angel…

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The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.

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To feel that your hours are filled to overflowing, that you can barely steal minutes enough for sleep, that the welfare of many is…

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It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is…

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“An accepted lover, who deserves to have been accepted, should devote every hour at his command to his mistress.”

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Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.

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“(On Charles Dickens) It has been the peculiarity and the marvel of this man’s power, that he has invested his puppets with a charm…

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There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

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

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Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.

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“The heroes of life are so much better than the heroes of romance,” said Caroline.”

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