The Last Chronicle of Barset Quotes

“A man who desires to soften another man's heart, should always abuse himself. In softening a woman's heart, he should abuse her.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset

“Mrs Draper took this as an order for her departure, and crept silently out of the room, closing the door behind her with the long protracted elaborate click which is always produced by an attempt at silence on such occasions.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset

“There are some people, if you can only get to learn the length of their feet, you can always fit them with shoes afterwards.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset

“Shall a man have nothing of his own; -- no sorrow in his heart, no care in his family, no thought in his breast so private and special to him, but that, if he happen to be a clergyman, the bishop may touch it with his thumb?'
I am not the bishop's thumb,' said Mr. Thumble”
― Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset

“But yet his thoughts were very tender to her. Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless. We want what we have not; and especially that which we can never have.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset

“She was an old woman who thought all evil of those she did not know, and all good of those whom she did know....”
― Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset

“He, as he told his tale, did not look her in the face, but sat with his eyes fixed upon her muff.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset

“No one ever on seeing Mr Crawley took him to be a happy man, or a weak man, or an ignorant man, or a wise man.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset

“Poverty makes the spirit poor, and the hands weak, and the heart sore,—and too often makes the conscience dull.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset

“It is in his perfection as a man that we recognize the divinity of Christ.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset

“Those who are high in station strike us more by their joys and sorrows than do the poor and lowly.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset

“There are men who are deaf as adders to courtesy, but who are compelled to obedience at once by ill-usage.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset

“Humbug out of doors is necessary.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset

“No man in England knew better than the archdeacon the difference between beauty of one kind and beauty of another kind in a woman's face,—the one beauty, which comes from health and youth and animal spirits, and which belongs to the miller's daughter, and the other beauty, which shows itself in fine lines and a noble spirit,—the beauty which comes from breeding.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset

“Women delight to forgive injuries.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset

“Money is worth thinking of, but it is not worth very much thought.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset

“When there is unhappiness, people should stay together;—shouldn't they, mamma?”
― Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset

“Always to be best;—always to be in advance of others. That should be your motto.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset

“I know that a gentleman ought not to marry any girl to do himself and his family an injury by it;”
― Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset

“Spoken words are soon forgotten,—”
― Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset

“What's the good of wishing for what you can't get?”
― Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset

“Do not make threats in anger.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset

“do not say words which you will surely repent.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset

“Mamma, Major Grantly has—skedaddled." "Oh, Lily, what a word!”
― Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset

“Women are not allowed to have wills of their own on all occasions.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset

“When I take an aversion to a fellow at first sight, I always stick to it.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset

“There is no disgrace in not being rich," said Mr. Robarts.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset

“A man is degraded when the cares of the world press so heavily upon him that he cannot rouse himself.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset

“Mamma, Major Grantly has--skedaddled.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset

“As for your sister, don't talk to me about her. I don't care two straws about your sister. You must excuse me, Major Grantly, but Lady Hartletop is really too big for my powers of vision.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset