Palliser Novels Quotes

“She had known his faults and weaknesses, and was probably aware that he was inferior to herself in character and intellect. But, nevertheless, she had loved him. To her he had been, though not heroic, sufficiently a man to win her heart. He was a gentleman, pleasant-mannered, pleasant to look at, pleasant to talk to, not educated in the high sense of the word, but never making himself ridiculous by ignorance.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Palliser Novels: Complete Series - All 6 Books in One Edition: Can You Forgive Her?, Phineas Finn, The Eustace Diamonds, Phineas Redux, The Prime Minister & The Duke's Children

“What could she do with a man who had no ideas of his own as to what he ought to do with himself?”
― Anthony Trollope, The Palliser Novels: Complete Series - All 6 Books in One Edition: Can You Forgive Her?, Phineas Finn, The Eustace Diamonds, Phineas Redux, The Prime Minister & The Duke's Children

“A girl almost always likes a man who is in love with her,—unless indeed she positively dislikes him.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Palliser Novels: Complete Series - All 6 Books in One Edition: Can You Forgive Her?, Phineas Finn, The Eustace Diamonds, Phineas Redux, The Prime Minister & The Duke's Children

“As a portrait should be like the person portrayed, so should a representative House be like the people whom it represents. Nor in arranging a franchise does it seem to me that we have a right to regard any other view. If a country be unfit for representative”
― Anthony Trollope, The Palliser Novels

“was”
― Anthony Trollope, The Palliser Novels

“he understood well that code of by-laws which was presumed to constitute the character of a gentleman in his circle.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Palliser Chronicles Collection