Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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Money is neither god nor devil, that it should make one noble and another vile. It is an accident, and if honestly possessed, may pass from you to me, or from me to you, without a stain.
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It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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'Aid from heaven you may have,' he said, 'by saying your prayers; and I don't doubt you ask for this and all other things generally. But an angel won't come to tell you who ought to be Chancellor of the Exchequer.'
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An attorney can find it consistent with his dignity to turn wrong into right, and right into wrong, to abet a lie, nay to create, disseminate, and with all the play of his wit, give strength to the basest of lies, on behalf of the basest of scoundrels.
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The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best dressed whose dress no one observes. I am not sure but that the same may be said of an author's written language.
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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Those who offend us are generally punished for the offence they give; but we so frequently miss the satisfaction of knowing that we are avenged!
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It would seem that the full meaning of the word marriage can never be known by those who, at their first outspring into life, are surrounded by all that money can give. It requires the single sitting-room, the single fire, the necessary little efforts of self-devotion, the inward declaration that some struggle shall be made for that other one.
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The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
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I have never walked down Fifth Avenue alone without thinking of money.
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Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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When any body of statesmen make public asservations by one or various voices, that there is no discord among them, not a dissentient voice on any subject, people are apt to suppose that they cannot hang together much longer.
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As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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Though they were Liberals they were not democrats; nor yet infidels.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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But the hobbledehoy, though he blushes when women address him, and is uneasy even when he is near them, though he is not master ofhis limbs in a ball-room, and is hardly master of his tongue at any time, is the most eloquent of beings, and especially eloquent among beautiful women.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can. They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.