Anthony Trollope Quotes
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night... Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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She knew how to allure by denying, and to make the gift rich by delaying it.
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An editor is bound to avoid the meshes of the law, which are always infinitely more costly to companies, or things, or institutions, than they are to individuals.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.
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He never went very far astray in his official business, because he always obeyed the clerks and followed precedents.
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Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.
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There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder, the concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women's voices?
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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In former days, when there were Whigs instead of Liberals, it was almost a rule of political life that all leading Whigs sould be uncles, brothers-in-law, or cousins to each other. This was pleasant and gave great consistency to the party; but the system has now gone out of vogue.
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It is the necessary nature of a political party in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which involves a great change.
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To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.
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When one wants to be natural, of necessity one becomes the reverse of natural.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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We all profess to believe when we're told that this world should be used merely as a preparation for the next; and yet there is something so cold and comfortless in the theory that we do not relish the prospect even for our children.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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You can never teach them, except by the slow lesson of habit.
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Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be thrown away upon him.
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No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed over to others.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.