Doctor Thorne Quotes

“One does not like to have one’s little offerings of sentimental service turned into burlesque when one is in love in earnest.”
― Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne

“A man raises a woman to his own standard, but a woman must take that of the man she marries.”
― Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne

“but don’t scold me; you see how humble I am; not only humble but umble, which I look upon to be the comparative, or, indeed, superlative degree. Or perhaps there are four degrees; humble, umble, stumble, tumble; and then, when one is absolutely in the dirt at their feet, perhaps these big people won’t wish one to stoop any further.”
― Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne

“Mr Moffat was a young man of very large fortune, in Parliament, inclined to business, and in every way recommendable. He was not a man of birth, to be sure; that was to be lamented;”
― Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne

“I wish to goodness you had no further need to borrow. I did think that things were settled last year.”
― Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne

“So he got up at night, and he got some fellows with him, and they climbed up and painted out ‘Resurgam,’ and they painted into its place, ‘Requiescat in pace;’ which means, you know, ‘you’d a great deal better stay where you are.’ Now I call that good. Fred Hatherly did that as sure as — as sure as — as sure as anything.” Frank could not help laughing at the story, especially at his cousin’s mode of translating the undertaker’s mottoes; and then they sauntered back from the stables into the house to dress for dinner.”
― Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne

“...[your heart] That is your own estate, your own, your very own, --our own and another's. Whatever may go to the moneylenders, don't send that there. Don't mortgage that.”
― Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne

“Frank Gresham, when twitted with being a Whig, foreswore the de Courcy family; and then, when ridiculed as having been thrown over by the Tories, foreswore his father’s old friends. So”
― Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne

“the principal duty which a parent owed to a child was to make him happy. Not”
― Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne

“All the world feels that a man when married acquires some of the attributes of an old woman—he”
― Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne

“...[A]ll manner of marriages are considered to be comme il faut.”
― Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne