Quotes About Trollope

He had already known many members of Parliament to whom no outward respect or sign of honour was ever given by any one; and it seemed to him, as he thought over it, that Irish members of Parliament were generally treated with more indifference than any others. There were O'B–––– and O'C–––– and O'D––––

CHAPTER XLII MR. MAINWARING'S LITTLE DINNER

That very distinguished but now aged physician, Sir Omicron Pie, was still staying at Matching Priory.

THE WARDEN This is the first novel in Trollope's popular series known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire. The novel (Trollope's fourth) was first published in 1855 and was reportedly inspired by a walk around Salisbury cathedral.

And then how grievous a thing it is to have the pleasure of your novel destroyed by the ill-considered triumph of a previous reader.

CHAPTER XL LORD RUFFORD WANTS TO SEE A HORSE

This play was first published in 1923, many years after Trollope's death and it was most likely never performed. It serves a basis for the popular Palliser novel Can You Forgive Her?

CHAPTER XIV THE DILLSBOROUGH FEUD

It was Mr. Gotobed, who had just returned from a visit which he had made, the circumstances of which must be narrated in the next chapter. The

An adaptation I was working on of Trollope's 'The Pallisers' has been axed by the BBC... I was also going to do Dickens' 'Dombey and Son' but they've asked me to do 'David Copperfield' instead.

She used a line from Trollope's Barchester Towers as an epigraph:There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

staying, that he mustn't be at all demonstrative towards Vi, that it would seem, in front of the poor