Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels.
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Mr. Browborough, whose life had not been passed in any strict obedience to the Ten Commandments, and whose religious observances had not hitherto interfered with either the pleasures or the duties of his life, repeated at every meeting which he attended, and almost to every elector whom he canvassed, the great Shibboleth which he had now adopted "The prosperity of England depends on the Church of her people.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest at it, and will work with the most honest purpose, will work the best.
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves. If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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A Minister can always give a reason; and, if he be clever, he can generally when doing so punish the man who asks for it. The punishing of an influential enemy is an indiscretion; but an obscure questioner may often be crushed with good effect.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion.
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I don't like anybody or anything," said Lucinda. Yes, you do;--you like horses to ride, and dresses to wear.
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To oblige a friend by inflicting an injury on his enemy is often more easy than to confer a benefit on the friend himself.
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Never mingle love and business.