Psychology Quotes by Anthony Trollope

11 Psychology quotes by Anthony Trollope

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Anthony Trollope’s narrative eye turns to the inner lives of his characters, and this eleven‑piece set captures that perspective. The statements feel both historically grounded and surprisingly applicable to today’s mental landscape.

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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.

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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come…

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A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.

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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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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous…

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“The Mob” thought that a good deal should be overlooked in a Melmotte, and that the philanthropy of his great designs should…

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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality…

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The bucolic mind of East Barsetshire took warm delight in the eloquence of the eminent personage who represented them, but was wont…

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“He might be fifty years old, and would have looked young for his age, had not constant work hardened his features, and…

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That girls should not marry for money we are all agreed. A lady who can sell herself for a title or an…

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“There is nothing in the world so difficult as that task of making up one's mind. Who is there that has not…

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Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do.

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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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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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