Anthony Trollope Quotes
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When you have done the rashest thing in the world it is very pleasant to be told that no man of spirit could have acted otherwise.
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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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Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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Upon the present occasion London was full of clergymen. The specially clerical clubs, the Oxford and Cambridge, the Old University, and the Athenaeum, were black with them.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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'I think it is so glorious,' said the American. 'There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality. That is what father says. What men ought to want is liberty.'
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance; a feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, - and always to plead it successfully.
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When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with so excellent a disposition.
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The affair simply amounted to this, that they were to eat their dinner uncomfortably in a field instead of comfortably in the dining room.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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A man's mind will very generally refuse to make itself up until it be driven and compelled by emergency.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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In the latter days of July in the year 185-, a most important question was for ten days hourly asked in the cathedral city of Barchester, and answered every hour in various ways - Who was to be the new Bishop?
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A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to every one else.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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He could find no cure for his grief; but he did know that continued occupation would relieve him, and therefore he occupied himself continually.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone. A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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Marvellous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.
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It is very difficult to say nowadays where the suburbs of London come to an end and where the country begins. The railways, instead of enabling Londoners to live in the country have turned the countryside into a city.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.