The Prime Minister Quotes

“He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Prime Minister

“She became aware that she had thought the less of him because he had thought the more of her. She had worshipped this other man because he had assumed superiority and had told her that he was big enough to be her master. But now, -- now that it was all too late, -- the veil had fallen from her eyes. She could now see the difference between manliness and 'deportment.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Prime Minister

“There is an aptness, a propriety, a fitness in these things which one can understand perhaps better than explain.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Prime Minister

“She had been notably religious, but that was gradually wearing off as she advanced in years. The rigid strictness of Sabbatarian practice requires the full energy of middle life.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Prime Minister

“Upon my word, sir,’said he, ‘I’ve hardly looked at her. It is not a matter of looks now, as it used to be. It has got beyond that. It is not that I am indifferent to seeing a pretty face, or that I have no longer an opinion of my own about a woman’s figure. But there grows up, I think, a longing which almost kills that consideration.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Prime Minister

“Leave a chimney-sweep alone when you see him, Chiltern. Should he run against you, then remember that it is one of the necessary penalties of clean linen that it is apt to be soiled.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Prime Minister