Quotes

"A spoken word, Sir Abraham, is often of more value than volumes of written advice." ~ The Warden by Anthony Trollope "What is any public question but a conglomeration of private interests?" ~ The Warden by Anthony Trollope Velvet and gilding do not make a throne, nor gold and jewels a sceptre. It is a throne because the most exalted one sits there,—and a sceptre because the most mighty one wields it. ~ The Warden by Anthony Trollope You might pass Eleanor Harding in the street without notice, but you could hardly pass an evening with her and not lose your heart. ~ The Warden by Anthony Trollope They say that faint heart never won fair lady; and it is amazing to me how fair ladies are won, so faint are often men's hearts! ~ The Warden by Anthony Trollope The bishop did not whistle: we believe that they lose the power of doing so on being consecrated. ~ The Warden by Anthony Trollope "One evening call," said he, "is worth ten in the morning. It's all formality in the morning; real social talk never begins till after dinner." ~ The Warden by Anthony Trollope There must be something ghostly in the air of Christmas--something about the close, muggy atmosphere that draws up the ghosts, like the dampness of the summer rains brings out the frogs and snails. ~ Told After Supper by Jerome K. Jerome He does love prophesying a misfortune, does the average British ghost. Send him out to prognosticate trouble to somebody, and he is happy. ~ Told After Supper by Jerome K. Jerome Sunlight is the life-blood of Nature. Mother Earth looks at us with such dull, soulless eyes, when the sunlight has died away from out of her. It makes us sad to be with her then; she does not seem to know us or to care for us. ~ Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome