Is He Popenjoy? Quotes

“It is not what one suffers that kills one, but what one knows that other people see that one suffers.”
― Anthony Trollope, Is He Popenjoy?

“Each must give way to the other if there is to be any happiness.”
― Anthony Trollope, Is He Popenjoy?

“He wouldn't know what to do with himself. He hates a house full of people. And”
― Anthony Trollope, Is He Popenjoy?

“I have walked, my lord, and am warm." "I never walk,—never could walk. I don't know why it is, but my legs won't walk." "Perhaps you never tried." "Yes, I have.”
― Anthony Trollope, Is He Popenjoy?

“Oh, papa, what will he say to you?" "I don't think he can eat me, my dear; nor will he dare even to murder me. I daresay he would if he could.”
― Anthony Trollope, Is He Popenjoy?

“She looked up into his face, and he could see that she was full of passion, and by no means in a mood to submit to his reproaches. She, too, could frown, and was frowning now.”
― Anthony Trollope, Is He Popenjoy?

“No;—nobody in England ever is taught anything but Latin and Greek,—with this singular result, that after ten or a dozen years of learning not one in twenty knows a word of either language. That is our English idea of education. In after life a little French may be picked up, from necessity; but it is French of the very worst kind. My wonder is that Englishman can hold their own in the world at all.”
― Anthony Trollope, Is He Popenjoy?

“To tell you the truth, I don't much wish anything, except to get out of this cursed country again." "Don't say that, Brotherton. You are an Englishman." "I am ashamed to say I am. I wish with all my heart that I had been born a Chinese or a Red Indian." This he said, not in furtherance of any peculiar cosmopolitan proclivities, but because the saying of it would vex his mother. "What am I to think of the country, when the moment I get here I am hounded by all my own family because I choose to live after my own fashion and not after theirs?”
― Anthony Trollope, Is He Popenjoy?

“Your brother has married a lady, and my daughter has married a gentleman." "Yes; George is a great ass; in some respects the greatest ass I know; but he is a gentleman. Perhaps if you have anything else that you wish to say you will do me the honour of sitting down.”
― Anthony Trollope, Is He Popenjoy?

“I dare say, and as it doesn't displease me all is well. You, however, have quite sense enough to understand, that in this house more is thought of—of—of—" he would have said blood, but that he did not wish to hurt her,—"more is thought of personal good conduct than of rings and jewels.”
― Anthony Trollope, Is He Popenjoy?

“Young people of rank ought to wear nice things,”
― Anthony Trollope, Is He Popenjoy?