Framley Parsonage Quotes

“One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.”
― Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage

“For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden.”
― Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage

“When a man gets into his head an idea that the public voice calls for him, it is astonishing how great becomes his trust in the wisdom of the public.”
― Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage

“It was a beautiful summer afternoon, at that delicious period of the year when summer has just burst forth from the growth of spring; when the summer is yet but three days old, and all the various shades of green which nature can put forth are still in their unsoiled purity of freshness.”
― Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage

“Now, Justinia, you are unfair.”
― Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage

“They had not been long there before Lord Dumbello did group himself. 'Fine day,' he said, coming up and occupying the vacant position by Miss Grantly's elbow.
'We were driving to-day and we thought it rather cold,' said Griselda.
'Deuced cold,' said Lord Dumbello, and then he adjusted his white cravat and touched up his whiskers. Having got so far, he did not proceed to any other immediate conversational efforts; nor did Griselda. But he grouped himself again as became a marquis, and gave very intense satisfaction to Mrs. Proudie.
'This is so kind of you, Lord Dumbello,' said that lady, coming up to him and shaking his hand warmly; 'so very kind of you to come to my poor little tea-party.'
'Uncommonly pleasant, I call it,' said his lordship. 'I like this sort of thing--no trouble, you know.'
'No; that is the charm of it: isn't it? no trouble or fuss, or parade. That's what I always say. According to my ideas, society consists in giving people facility for an interchange of thoughts--what we call conversation.'
'Aw, yes, exactly.'
'Not in eating and drinking together--eh, Lord Dumbello? And yet the practice of our lives would seem to show that the indulgence of those animal propensities can alone suffice to bring people together. The world in this has surely made a great mistake.'
'I like a good dinner all the same,' said Lord Dumbello.
'Oh, yes, of course--of course. I am by no means one of those who would pretend to preach that our tastes have not been given to us for our enjoyment. Why should things be nice if we are not to like them?'
'A man who can really give a good dinner has learned a great deal,' said Lord Dumbello, with unusual animation.
'An immense deal. It is quite an art in itself; and one which I, at any rate, by no means despise. But we cannot always be eating -- can we?'
'No,' said Lord Dumbello, 'not always.' And he looked as though he lamented that his powers should be so circumscribed.”
― Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage

“There is no cholera, no yellow-fever, no small-pox more contagious than debt.”
― Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage

“Ah, you think that anything naked must be indecent; even truth.”
― Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage

“Poor Mr. Smith, having been so rudely dragged from his high horse, was never able to mount it again, and completed the lecture in a manner not at all comfortable to himself.”
― Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage

“Salmon and lamb in February, and green pease and new potatoes in March, can hardly make a man happy, even though nobody pays for them; and the feeling that one is an antecedentem scelestum after whom a sure, though lame, Nemesis is hobbling, must sometimes disturb one's slumbers”
― Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage

“Gift bread chokes in a man's throat and poisons his blood, and sits like lead upon the heart.”
― Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage

“A man cannot be honest if he have not some pride.”
― Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage

“This father, though he loved his offspring with an affection as intense as that which human nature can supply, was not gifted with the knack of making children fond of him; for it is hardly more than a knack, that aptitude which some men have of gaining the good graces of the young. Such men are not always the best fathers or the safest guardians; but they carry about with them a certain duc ad me which children recognize, and which in three minutes upsets all the barriers between five and five-and-forty.”
― Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage

“But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it? Who at least ever declined a love secret?”
― Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage

“A gentleman would not make you a formal proposal, and leave you in doubt as to what he meant.”
― Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage

“he had been so proud in his position, - has assumed to himself so prominent a standing, - had contrived, by some trick which he had acquired, to carry his head so high above the heads of neighbouring parsons.”
― Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage

“Is it not a recognised rule of these realms that none of the blood royal shall raise to royal honours those of the subjects who are by birth un-royal!”
― Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage

“...and it had been the pride of his life so to live that the world might know that he was indifferent about money.
(Dr Thorne)”
― Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage

“I am sure of it; I know it well. What any man could do by himself you would do, - excepting one thing.' And the dean as he spoke looked full into the others' face.
'And what is there I would not do?' said Crawley
'Sacrifice your own pride.'
'My pride?'
'Yes; your own pride.”
― Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage

“But, then, again, how much of the pride of her daily life would be destroyed by such a match as this!”
― Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage

“A man in love seldom loves less because his love becomes difficult.”
― Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage

“her love was powerful, but so also was her pride; and she could not bring herself to bear the scorn which would lie in Lady Lufton's eyes.”
― Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage

“Yes; we are becoming the slaves of a mercenary and irresponsible press, - of one single newspaper.”
― Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage

“Strong as her love as, yet her pride was, perhaps, stronger; - stronger at any rate during that interview. But how was she to forgive herself the falsehood she has told?”
― Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage

“But I can't tell you what she did or said; only she behaved beautifully; just like herself too; so full of love and truth and honesty. There's nobody like her, Mark; and she's better than all the dukes that ever wore - whatever dukes do wear.
(about Lady Lufton)”
― Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage

“Friends are not to be picked up on the roadside every day, nor are they to be thrown away lightly.”
― Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage

“There is no cholera, no yellow-fever, no small-pox, more contagious than debt.”
― Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage

“And there is nothing viler than the desire to know great people, - people of great rank, I should say; nothing worse than the hunting of titles and worshipping of wealth.”
― Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage

“Friends are not to be picked up on the road-side every day; nor are they to be thrown away lightly.”
― Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage

“I know it will be said of Lord Lufton himself that, putting aside his peerage and broad acres, and handsome, sonsy face, he was not worth a girl’s care and love. That will be said because people think that heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world’s common wear and tear. I may as well confess that of absolute, true heroism there was only a moderate admixture in Lord Lufton’s composition; but what would the world come to if none but absolute true heroes were to be thought worthy of women’s love? What would the men do? and what—oh! what would become of the women?”
― Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage