Anthony Trollope Quotes

He must have known me had he seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognise me by my face.

Anthony Trollope

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• Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Good
  • Think
  • Marriage

• I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Family
  • Reading
  • Habit

• Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Real
  • Bad

• When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Habit

• You must acquire the habits and skills of managing a small amount of money before you can have a large amount. Remember, we are creatures of habit and, therefore, the habit of managing your money is more important than the amount.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Important
  • Money
  • Remember

• Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Life
  • Think
  • Habit

• There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Freedom
  • Habit
  • Forgiveness

• The hostility between India and Pakistan has become a habit to which both the elites have become addicted. Any attempt towards a rational solution to real problems is denounced by chauvinists on both sides.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Real
  • Problems
  • Habit

• Clothes are a kind of uniform. A nun's habit, a surgeon's scrubs, a cop's uniform. People often say that when they put on a certain uniform, they actually think of themselves differently.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • Think
  • Habit

• Californians devised a system of electricity sales that ignored every dimension of the free market.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Free
  • Sales
  • Electricity

• You know you're living with the habit of zest if you purposefully choose the scenic route to wherever you are going. Or you choose clothing because you love the texture of the fabric. Or you pick a shampoo or cleaning product because you love the smell - smell being just as important to you as how the product works.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Important
  • Love
  • Habit

• I think there has been this really bad habit of environmentalists being insufferably smug, where they are sort of saying, 'This is the issue that beats all other issues,' or, 'Your issue doesn't matter because nothing matters if the earth is fried.'

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Earth

• I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Life
  • Good
  • Done

• Kelly has a rather bad habit of interrupting.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Bad
  • Habit
  • Rather

• Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Time
  • Me
  • Attention

• Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Happy

• Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

  

  Hal Boyle
  • Habit
  • Professors
  • Simply

• Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I've been doing it since I was two.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Know
  • Doing
  • Habit

• I think that if I get into the habit of writing a bit about what happens, or rather doesn't happen, I may lose a little of the sense of isolation and desolation which abides with me. My circumstances allowing of nothing but the ejaculation of one-syllabled reflections, a written monologue by that most interesting being, myself, may have its yet to be discovered consolations.

  

  Alice James
  • Writing
  • May
  • Interesting

• I have kissed in almost all the films except in 'Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai.' I'm not sure if my kissing on screen has anything to do with the success of a film, but producers make sure to put a kissing scene or two. They feel my kissing scenes are my lucky streak.

  

  Emraan Hashmi
  • Time
  • Success

• I don't believe so much in the value of a single picture anymore. I don't really photograph for the wall.

  

  Ernst Haas
  • Wall
  • Values
  • Photograph

• My parents told me, 'Skating is a privilege, not a right, and school always comes first.'

  

  Ashley Wagner
  • School
  • Parents

• He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty" - Lao-tsu One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Control
  • Thoughts
  • Conquer

• He must have known me had he seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognise me by my face.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Habit