"Barchester Towers" Quotes
"Barchester Towers" satirically explores the power struggles and romantic entanglements within the clergy and gentry of a provincial English cathedral town.
classics | 396 pages | Published in 2019
Quotes
It is the normal condition of a man to prefer his own lot to that of his neighbour.
The world is hard, the world is selfish, and the world is ungrateful.
The greatest charm of truth is its own endurance.
He who has failed in the world can have no joy in it.
No man is happy unless he thinks himself so.
The man who is most anxious to bring about the marriage of his friend is not always the most rational.
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
The man who is in a hurry to marry comes off by being a fool.
The best-bred people are the least presuming.
A man never shows his own wisdom so clearly as when he manages another man's business.
