Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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You can never teach them, except by the slow lesson of habit.
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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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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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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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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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Easy reading requires hard writing.
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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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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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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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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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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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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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When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.
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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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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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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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High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.