Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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Easy reading requires hard writing.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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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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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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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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He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he know how to speak the truth.
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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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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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It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.
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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 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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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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When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.
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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.