Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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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A man will be generally very old and feeble before he forgets how much money he has in the funds.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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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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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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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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Easy reading requires hard writing.
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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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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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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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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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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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When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.
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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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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.
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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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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.