Trollope Novels Quotes

#1. If there's anything Trollope novels always take seriously, it is money - how it flows from one character to another, how it is managed, who has it, who deserves it, and what it means to a character, male or female.

Jane Smiley

#2. I hope that all new filmmakers see that the Internet and social media are helpful tools in establishing a fan base as well as being able to interact with your fans.

Lloyd Kaufman

#3. Johnson told the doctors that "he enjoyed nothing but whiskey, sunshine and sex." Reedy found the moment "poignant," he was to recall. "Without realizing what he was doing, he had outlined succinctly the tragedy of his life. The only way he could get away from himself was sensation: sun, booze, sex.

Robert A. Caro

#4. Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century.

Anthony Trollope

#5. And here's the fact: the fact is it doesn't solve the problem. First of all, if you taxed these people at 100 percent, basically next year you said, 'Look, every penny you make next year the government's going to take it from you,' it still doesn't solve the debt.

Marco Rubio

#6. My uncle says his grandfather remembered when children didn't kill each other. But that was a long time ago when they had things different. They believed in responsibility, my uncle says.

Ray Bradbury

#7. I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing.

Anne Tyler

#8. People aren't always what they appear, James. The gift is accepting them as who they are, not who we want them to be.

Katherine Reay

#9. Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance.

Stanley Hauerwas

#10. What a horrible thing yellow is.

Edgar Degas

#11. The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God's thought and hand, is our own soul!

Henry Ward Beecher

#12. Everything about her room betokened wealth; but she had put away the French novels, and had placed a Bible on a little table, not quite hidden, behind her own seat.

Anthony Trollope

#13. We get on now with a lighter step, and quicker: ridicule is found to be more convincing than argument, imaginary agonies touch more than true sorrows, and monthly novels convince, when learned quartos fail to do so.

Anthony Trollope

#14. Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.

Homer

#15. These leave-takings in novels are as disagreeable as they are in real life; not so sad, indeed, for they want the reality of sadness; but quite as perplexing, and generally less satisfactory.

Anthony Trollope

#16. Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out.

Jane Smiley

#17. I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.

Joanna Trollope

#18. Self-esteem is such a challenging issue for young women.

Kimberly Elise

#19. Men are not good in truth when they are good by halves.

Thomas Watson

#20. Those who have not more must be satisfied with what they have.

Jane Austen

#21. When I get in there, everything gets blocked out. I just focus on the person in the cage with me. That's all my brain has room for at the time.

Chris Weidman

#22. Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.

Anthony Trollope

#23. To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.

Anthony Trollope

#24. You found me in my lonely labyrinth and like Beatrice, led me out of my own hell ...

John Geddes

#25. But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.

Anthony Trollope