Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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 true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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Life is so unlike theory.
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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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The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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There is always a piano in an hotel drawing-room, on which, of course, some one of the forlorn ladies is generally employed. I do not suppose that these pianos are, in fact, as a rule, louder and harsher, more violent and less musical, than other instruments of the kind. They seem to be so, but that, I take it, arises from the exceptional mental depression of those who have to listen to them.
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It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.
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I never believe anything that a lawyer says when he has a wig on his head and a fee in his hand. I prepare myself beforehand to regard it all as mere words, supplied at so much the thousand. I know he'll say whatever he thinks most likely to forward his own views.
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Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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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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A man can't do what he likes with his coverts.
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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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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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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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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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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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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so.
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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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I don't like anybody or anything," said Lucinda. Yes, you do;--you like horses to ride, and dresses to wear.