Phineas Redux Quotes

“It is no good any longer having any opinion upon anything...”
― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

“But she knew this,—that it was necessary for her happiness that she should devote herself to some one. All the elegancies and outward charms of life were delightful, if only they could be used as the means to some end. As an end themselves they were nothing. ”
― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

“But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.”
― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

“I have passed the period of a woman's life when as a woman she is loved; but I have have not outlived the power of loving.”
― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

“Though they were Liberals they were not democrats; nor yet infidels.”
― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

“The fight has been going on since...dominion in this world has found itself capable of sustentation by the exercise of fear as to the world to come.”
― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

“In former days the Earl had been a man quite capable of making himself disagreeable, and probably had not yet lost the power of doing so. Of all our capabilities this is the one which clings longest to us.”
― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

“The rising in life of our familiar friends is, perhaps, the bitterest morsel of the bitter bread which we are called upon to eat in life.”
― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

“It seemed, indeed, to Phineas that as Mrs. Low was buckled up in such triple armour that she feared nothing, she might have been less loud in expression her abhorrence of the enemies of the Church. If she feared nothing, why should she scream so loudly?”
― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

“three o’clock Phineas was acknowledged to be”
― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

“He was not witty, nor did he deal in anecdotes.”
― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

“She was dark, thin, healthy, good-looking, clever, ambitious, rich, unsatisfied, perhaps unscrupulous — but not without a conscience.”
― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux