Complete Barchester Chronicles Quotes

“There was once a people in some land—and they may be still there for what I know—who thought it sacrilegious to stay the course of a raging fire. If a house were being burned, burn it must, even though there were facilities for saving it. For who would dare to interfere with the course of the god? Our idea of sorrow is much the same. We think it wicked, or at any rate heartless, to put it out. If a man’s wife be dead, he should go about lugubrious, with long face, for at least two years, or perhaps with full length for eighteen months, decreasing gradually during the other six. If he be a man who can quench his sorrow—put out his fire as it were—in less time than that, let him at any rate not show his power!”
― Anthony Trollope, The Complete Chronicles of Barsetshire

“Hers was one of those feminine hearts which cling to a husband, not with idolatry, for worship can admit of no defect in its idol, but with the perfect tenacity of ivy. As the parasite plant will follow even the defects of the trunk which it embraces, so did Eleanor cling to and love the very faults of her husband.”
― Anthony Trollope, Chronicles of Barsetshire - Complete Edition (All 6 Books in One Edition): The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington…

“He conquered his enemies by their weakness rather than by his own strength,”
― Anthony Trollope, The Complete Chronicles of Barsetshire

“Gift bread chokes in a man’s throat and poisons his blood, and sits like lead upon the heart.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Complete Chronicles of Barsetshire

“You millionnaires always talk of Christian resignation, because you never are called on to resign anything.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Complete Chronicles of Barsetshire

“not, at any rate, such a woman as her." It went against the grain with Mr. Sowerby, this seeking of pecuniary assistance from the very woman whose hand he had attempted to gain about a fortnight since; but he allowed his sister to prevail. What”
― Anthony Trollope, Chronicles of Barsetshire