The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (437 page)

Trevelyan, G. M.
1876–1962

1
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization.

English Social History
(1942) introduction

2
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

3
[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

 
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Trillin, Calvin
1935–

1
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.

in
Sunday Times
9 June 1991; attributed

 
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Trimble, David
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

in
Guardian
18 September 1997

2
The fundamental Act of Union is there, intact.
of the Northern Ireland settlement

in
Daily Telegraph
11 April 1998

 
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Trinder, Tommy
1909–89

1
Overpaid, overfed, oversexed, and over here.
of American troops in Britain during the Second World War

associated with Trinder, but probably not his invention

 
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Trollope, Anthony
1815–82

1
Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

Autobiography
(1883) ch. 15

2
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

3
When taken in the refreshing waters of office any…pill can be swallowed.

The Bertrams
(1859) ch. 16

4
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

Doctor Thorne
(1858) ch. 16

5
She knew how to allure by denying, and to make the gift rich by delaying it.

Phineas Finn
(1869) ch. 57

6
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

7
The tenth Muse, who now governs the periodical press.

The Warden
(1855) ch. 14

8
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

 
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Trollope, Frances
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.

remark,
c.
1848; S. Baring-Gould
Early Reminiscences 1834-1864
(1923)

 
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