Can You Forgive Her? Quotes

“She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.”
― Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her?

“Little bits of things make me do it; — perhaps a word that I said and ought not to have said ten years ago; — the most ordinary little mistakes, even my own past thoughts to myself about the merest trifles. They are always making me shiver.”
― Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her?

“You shall be my pet, and my poppet, and my dearest little duck all the days of your life.”
― Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her?

“My dear, the truth must be spoken. I declare I don't think I ever saw a young woman so improvident as you are. When are you to begin to think about getting married if you don't do it now?"
"I shall never begin to think about it, till I buy my wedding clothes.”
― Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her?

“He's a very handsome man, is the captain," said Jeaneatte. . .
"You shouldn't think about handsome men, child," said Mrs. Greenow.
"And I'm sure I don't," said Jeanette. "Not more than anybody else; but if a man is handsome, ma'am, why, it stands to reason that he is handsome.”
― Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her?

“It seems to me that if a man can so train himself that he may live honestly and die fearlessly, he has done about as much as is necessary.”
― Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her?

“I like to have a plan," said Mr. Palliser. "And so do I," said his wife,--"if only for the sake of not keeping it.”
― Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her?

“Men and women ain't lumps of sugar. They don't melt because the water is sometimes warm.”
― Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her?

“There are men whose energies hardly ever carry them beyond looking for the thing they want.”
― Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her?

“Babbling may be a weakness, but to my thinking mystery is a vice.”
― Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her?

“In this world things are beautiful only because they are not quite seen, or not perfectly understood. Poetry is precious chiefly because it suggests more than it declares.”
― Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her?

“And then she began to think about Lady Glencora herself. What a strange, weird nature she was,—with her round blue eyes and wavy hair, looking sometimes like a child and sometimes almost like an old woman! And how she talked! What things she said, and what terrible forebodings she uttered of stranger things that she meant to say!”
― Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her?

“If he was dull as a statesman he was more dull in private life, and it may be imagined that such a woman as his wife would find some difficulty in making his society the source of her happiness. Their marriage, in a point of view regarding business, had been a complete success,—and a success, too, when on the one side, that of Lady Glencora, there had been terrible dangers of shipwreck, and when on his side also there had been some little fears of a mishap.”
― Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her?

“Oh, that that old man in Westmoreland would die and be gathered to his fathers, now that he was full of years and ripe for the sickle! But there was no sign of death about the old man.”
― Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her?