Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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You can never teach them, except by the slow lesson of habit.
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Easy reading requires hard writing.
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There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
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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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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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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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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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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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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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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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This was Barrington Erle, a politician of long standing, who was still looked upon by many as a young man, because he had always been known as a young man, and because he had never done anything to compromise his position in that respect. He had not married, or settled himself down in a house of his own, or become subject to the gout, or given up being careful about the fitting of his clothes.
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It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.
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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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A man will be generally very old and feeble before he forgets how much money he has in the funds.
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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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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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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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Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?