Anthony Trollope Quotes on Society
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There is, perhaps, no greater hardship at present inflicted on mankind in civilised and free countries, than the neccessity of listening to sermons.
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There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night... Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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Of course there was a Great House at Allington. How otherwise should there have been a Small House?