Anthony Trollope Quotes
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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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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It is the necessary nature of a political party in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which involves a great change.
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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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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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Easy reading requires hard writing.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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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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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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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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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?
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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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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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High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.
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I know very well that if you get men who are really, really swells, for that is what it is, Mr. Low, and pay them well enough, and so make it really an important thing, they can browbeat any judge and hoodwink any jury.
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The tenth Muse who now governs the periodical press.
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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.