The American Senator Quotes

“But girls are sly, especially when their lovers are concerned.”
― Anthony Trollope, The American Senator

“If Dick’s sister married Tom’s brother what relation would Dick be to Tom’s mother? That’s the kind of thing, isn’t it?’ suggested Hoffman.”
― Anthony Trollope, The American Senator

“But John Morton would marry her tomorrow if he were well,—in spite of all her ill usage! Of course, he would die, and so she would again be overwhelmed;—but yet she would go and see him. As she determined to do so, there was something even in her hard callous heart softer than the love of money, and more human than the dream of an advantageous settlement in life.”
― Anthony Trollope, The American Senator

“The Duchess of Omnium did indeed remark to Lady Chiltern that she remembered something of the same kind happening to the same girl soon after her own marriage. As the duchess had now been married a great many years this was unkind;—but it was known that when the Duchess of Omnium did dislike any one, she never scrupled to show it. ‘Lord Rufford is about the silliest man of his day,’ she said afterwards to the same lady; ‘but there is one thing which I do not think even he is silly enough to do.”
― Anthony Trollope, The American Senator

“Miss Trefoil must have thought that kissing and proposing were the same thing. Other young ladies have, perhaps, before now made such a mistake. But this young lady had had much experience, and should have known better.”
― Anthony Trollope, The American Senator

“Men may often do much without knowing that they do anything, and such probably had been the case with Reginald Morton during the journey from Dillsborough to Cheltenham.”
― Anthony Trollope, The American Senator

“Colonial governors at their seats of government, and Ministers Plenipotentiary in their ambassadorial residences are very great persons indeed; and when met in society at home, with the stars and ribbons which are common among them now, they are less, indeed, but still something. But at the Colonial and Foreign Offices in London, among the assistant secretaries and clerks, they are hardly more than common men. All the gingerbread is gone there. His Excellency is no more than Jones, and the Representative or Alter Ego of Royalty mildly asks little favours of the junior clerks.”
― Anthony Trollope, The American Senator

“Of course, sir; when a man’s stomach rises above his intelligence, he’ll have to argue accordingly,’ said the Senator.”
― Anthony Trollope, The American Senator

“Then John Morton made up his mind that he would never ask another American Senator to his house.”
― Anthony Trollope, The American Senator

“The Honourable Mrs. Morton always went to church, and had no doubt of her own sincerity when she reiterated her prayer that as she forgave others their trespasses, so might she be forgiven hers. As Reginald Morton had certainly never trespassed against her perhaps there was no reason why her thoughts should be carried to the necessity of forgiving him.”
― Anthony Trollope, The American Senator

“He had brought back with him to Hoppet Hall many cases of books which the ignorance of Dillsborough had magnified into an enormous library, and was certainly a sedentary, reading man. There was already a report in the town that he was engaged in some stupendous literary work, and the men and women generally looked upon him as a disagreeable marvel of learning. Dillsborough of itself was not bookish, and would have regarded any one known to have written an article in a magazine almost as a phenomenon.”
― Anthony Trollope, The American Senator

“The present occupier of the house is a certain Mrs. Reginald Morton, with whom we shall also be much concerned in these pages, but whose introduction to the reader shall be postponed for awhile.”
― Anthony Trollope, The American Senator

“Then there came on that well-worn dispute among sportsmen, whether foxes and pheasants are or are not pleasant companions to each other. Every one was agreed that, if not, then the pheasants should suffer, and that any country gentleman who allowed his gamekeeper to entrench on the privileges of foxes in order that pheasants might be more abundant, was a "brute" and a "beast," and altogether unworthy to live in England.”
― Anthony Trollope, The American Senator: Enriched edition. An Engrossing Dive into Power, Love, and Ambition in 19th Century England

“CHAPTER LXXX CONCLUSION”
― Anthony Trollope, The American Senator

“CHAPTER LXXIX THE LAST DAYS OF MARY MASTERS”
― Anthony Trollope, The American Senator

“CHAPTER LXXVIII THE SENATOR’S LECTURE.—NO. II”
― Anthony Trollope, The American Senator

“Then a voice from the back called out, ‘What the deuce is all that to you?”
― Anthony Trollope, The American Senator

“Hate is difficult and expensive, and between individuals soon gives place to love.”
― Anthony Trollope, The American Senator

“CHAPTER LXXVII THE SENATOR’S LECTURE.—NO. I”
― Anthony Trollope, The American Senator

“She need never again seem to be gay in order that men might be attracted. She”
― Anthony Trollope, The American Senator

“That was all there was, and that had not been very bad. During”
― Anthony Trollope, The American Senator

“but he had assured her that in the world, as at present arranged, the best way to get a thing is to ask for it.”
― Anthony Trollope, The American Senator

“CHAPTER LXXVI THE WEDDING”
― Anthony Trollope, The American Senator

“CHAPTER LXXV ARABELLA’S SUCCESS”
― Anthony Trollope, The American Senator

“CHAPTER LXXIV BENEDICT”
― Anthony Trollope, The American Senator

“CHAPTER LXXIII ‘IS IT TANTI?”
― Anthony Trollope, The American Senator

“CHAPTER LXXII ‘BID HIM BE A MAN”
― Anthony Trollope, The American Senator

“CHAPTER LXXI ‘MY OWN, OWN HUSBAND”
― Anthony Trollope, The American Senator

“CHAPTER LXX AT LAST”
― Anthony Trollope, The American Senator

“CHAPTER LXIX SCROBBY’S TRIAL”
― Anthony Trollope, The American Senator