Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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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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You can never teach them, except by the slow lesson of habit.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.
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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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As will so often be the case when a men has a pen in his hand. It is like a club or sledge-hammer, - in using which, either for defence or attack, a man can hardly measure the strength of the blows he gives.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.
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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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But as the clerical pretensions are more exacting than all others, being put forward with an assertion that no answer is possible without breach of duty and sin, so are they more galling.
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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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Easy reading requires hard writing.
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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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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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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?