Trollope Society Quotes

#1. I don't think writers really choose their subjects. I think the subjects, the topics, the themes, choose us, and then we make the most of what we have. For Trollope, society; for Roth, Jews. For me, apparently, love. Why hide it?

Amy Bloom

#2. It is rarely [Americans] dine in society, except in taverns and boarding-houses. Then they eat with the greatest possible rapidity, and in total silence ...

Frances Trollope

#3. Some people just couldn't commit to their own health. Instead they wasted their energy worrying about things they could do nothing about.

Tess Gerritsen

#4. When any practice has become the fixed rule of the society in which we live, it is always wise to adhere to that rule, unless it call upon us to do something that is actually wrong. One should not offend the prejudices of the world, even if one is quite sure that they are prejudices.

Anthony Trollope

#5. I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.

Og Mandino

#6. Jesus washes the feet of the Apostles. Are we ready to serve others like this.

Pope Francis

#7. 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, no doctorship, no fellowship, be it of ever so learned or royal a society, no knightship,
not though it be of the Garter,
confers so fair an honour.

Anthony Trollope

#8. I never learned to study in studio school, so I had to teach myself to study.

Willie Aames

#9. I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.

Zoe Saldana

#10. I think with each record, I don't know ... they're like burdens.

Matt Shultz

#11. Mixed dinner parties of ladies and gentlemenare very rare, which is a great defect in the society; not only as depriving themof the most social and hospitable manner of meeting, but as leading to frequent dinner parties of gentlemen without ladies, which certainly does not conduce to refinement.

Frances Trollope

#12. When children's innocence is used as a tactic to suppress queer adults, readers need to resist, not children, but those who conscript children to fight their own ideological agendas.

Tison Pugh

#13. Though she hardly knew how to explain the matter even to herself, she was sure that there was at present a general heaving-up of society on this matter, and a change in progress which would soon make it a matter of indifference whether anybody was Jew or Christian. For

Anthony Trollope