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Trevelyan, G. M.
1876–1962
1876–1962
1
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization.
If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
[Education] has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals.
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization.
English Social History
(1942) introduction
If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
English Social History
(1942) ch. 8
[Education] has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals.
English Social History
(1942) ch. 18
Trillin, Calvin
1935–
1935–
1
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.
in
Sunday Times
9 June 1991; attributed
Trimble, David
1944–
1944–
1
We are not here to negotiate with them, but to confront them.
on entering the Mitchell talks on Northern Ireland with Sinn Feinn
The fundamental Act of Union is there, intact.
of the Northern Ireland settlement
We are not here to negotiate with them, but to confront them.
on entering the Mitchell talks on Northern Ireland with Sinn Feinn
in
Guardian
18 September 1997
The fundamental Act of Union is there, intact.
of the Northern Ireland settlement
in
Daily Telegraph
11 April 1998
Trinder, Tommy
1909–89
1909–89
1
Overpaid, overfed, oversexed, and over here.
of American troops in Britain during the Second World War
Overpaid, overfed, oversexed, and over here.
of American troops in Britain during the Second World War
associated with Trinder, but probably not his invention
Trollope, Anthony
1815–82
1815–82
1
Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.
When taken in the refreshing waters of office any…pill can be swallowed.
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
She knew how to allure by denying, and to make the gift rich by delaying it.
Newspaper editors sport daily with the names of men of whom they do not hesitate to publish almost the severest words that can be uttered; but let an editor be himself attacked, even without his name, and he thinks that the thunderbolt of heaven should fall upon the offender.
The tenth Muse, who now governs the periodical press.
Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
Autobiography
(1883) ch. 15
The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.
Barchester Towers
(1857) ch. 53
When taken in the refreshing waters of office any…pill can be swallowed.
The Bertrams
(1859) ch. 16
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
Doctor Thorne
(1858) ch. 16
She knew how to allure by denying, and to make the gift rich by delaying it.
Phineas Finn
(1869) ch. 57
Newspaper editors sport daily with the names of men of whom they do not hesitate to publish almost the severest words that can be uttered; but let an editor be himself attacked, even without his name, and he thinks that the thunderbolt of heaven should fall upon the offender.
Phineas Redux
(1874) ch. 27
The tenth Muse, who now governs the periodical press.
The Warden
(1855) ch. 14
Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
The Way We Live Now
(1875) ch. 84
Trollope, Frances
1780–1863
1780–1863
1
I draw from life—but I always pulp my acquaintance before serving them up. You would never recognize a pig in a sausage.
I draw from life—but I always pulp my acquaintance before serving them up. You would never recognize a pig in a sausage.
remark,
c.
1848; S. Baring-Gould
Early Reminiscences 1834-1864
(1923)
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