Frasi di Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope è stato uno scrittore inglese, uno dei più celebri e prolifici dell'età vittoriana.

Alcuni dei suoi capolavori, noti come Chronicles of Barsetshire perché basati sull'immaginaria contea di Barsetshire, affrontarono diverse tematiche politiche e sociali dell'epoca. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. Aprile 1815 – 6. Dicembre 1882
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Anthony Trollope: Frasi in inglese

“Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.”

Anthony Trollope libro The Way We Live Now

Origine: The Way We Live Now, ch. 84. (1875)

“There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality.”

Anthony Trollope libro The Duke's Children

Origine: The Duke's Children (1879), Ch. 48
Contesto: "I think it is so glorious," said the American. "There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality. That is what father says. What men ought to want is liberty."

“Speak to me of honour, of duty, and of nobility; and tell me what they require of you.”

Anthony Trollope libro The Duke's Children

Origine: The Duke's Children (1879), Ch. 61
Contesto: But between you and me there should be no mention of law as the guide of conduct. Speak to me of honour, of duty, and of nobility; and tell me what they require of you.

“It would seem that the full meaning of the word marriage can never be known by those who, at their first outspring into life, are surrounded by all that money can give.”

Origine: The Bertrams (1859), Ch. 30
Contesto: It would seem that the full meaning of the word marriage can never be known by those who, at their first outspring into life, are surrounded by all that money can give. It requires the single sitting-room, the single fire, the necessary little efforts of self-devotion, the inward declaration that some struggle shall be made for that other one.

“Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.”

Anthony Trollope libro Barchester Towers

Origine: Barchester Towers (1857), Ch. 38

“The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will be there to support you when all other resources are gone. It will be present to you when the energies of your body have fallen away from you. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.”

As quoted in Forbes (April 1948), p. 42
Variante: The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will be there to support you when all other resources are gone. . . . It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.

“There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.”

Anthony Trollope libro Barchester Towers

Origine: Barchester Towers (1857), Ch. 27

“There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.”

Anthony Trollope libro Barchester Towers

Origine: Barchester Towers (1857), Ch. 20

“Book love, my friends, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.”

Speech at the opening of an art exhibition at Bolton Mechanics' Institution (7 December 1868)

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