The Duke's Children

“A man can love too.''No; -- hardly. He can admire, and he can like, and he can fondle and be fond. He can admire and approve, and perhaps worship. He can know of a woman that she is part of himself, the most sacred part, and therefore will protect her from the very winds. But all that will not make love. It does not come to a man that to be separated from a woman is to be dislocated from his very self. A man has but one centre, and that is himself. A woman has two. Though the second may never been seen by her, may live in the arms of another, may do all for that other that man can do for woman, -- still, still, though he be half the globe asunder from her, still he is to her the half of her existence. If she really love, there is, I fancy no end of it.””

— Anthony Trollope

“There are moments in which stupid people say clever things, obtuse people say sharp things, and good-natured people say ill-natured things.””

— Anthony Trollope

“There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality. That is what father says. What men ought to want is liberty.””

— Anthony Trollope

“Had the heavens fallen and mixed themselves with the earth, had the people of London risen in rebellion with French ideas of equality,* had the Queen persistently declined to comply with the constitutional advice of her ministers, had a majority in the House of Commons lost its influence in the country,”

— Anthony Trollope

“When men combine to do nothing, how should there be disagreement? When men combine to do much, how should there not be disagreement?””

— Anthony Trollope

“No one, probably, ever felt himself to be more alone in the world than our old friend,* the Duke of Omnium, when the Duchess died.””

— Anthony Trollope

“as he cared no longer for the light that lies in a lady's eye, there was not much left to him in the world but cards and racing.””

— Anthony Trollope