Anthony Trollope Quotes
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A man will be generally very old and feeble before he forgets how much money he has in the funds.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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The bucolic mind of East Barsetshire took warm delight in the eloquence of the eminent personage who represented them, but was wont to extract more actual enjoyment from the music of his periods than from the strength of his arguments.
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Easy reading requires hard writing.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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The tenth Muse who now governs the periodical press.
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It is my purpose to disclose the mystery at once, and to ask you to look for your interest,--should you choose to go on with my chronicle,--simply in the conduct of my persons, during this disclosure to others.
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An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.
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Men will love to the last, but they love what is fresh and new. A woman's love can live on the recollection of the past, and cling to what is old and ugly.
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I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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No living orator would convince a grocer that coffee should be sold without chicory; and no amount of eloquence will make an English lawyer think that loyalty to truth should come before loyalty to his client.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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A farmer's horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind. Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties...and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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The difference of the English and Irish character is nowhere more plainly discerned than in their respective kitchens. With the former, this apartment is probably the cleanest, and certainly the most orderly, in the house.... An Irish kitchenis usually a temple dedicated to the goddess of disorder; and, too often, joined with her, is the potent deity of dirt.
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When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.
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High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.
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Ride at any fence hard enough, and the chances are you'll get over. The harder you ride the heavier the fall, if you get a fall; but the greater the chance of your getting over.