Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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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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Little bits of things make me do it; — perhaps a word that I said and ought not to have said ten years ago; — the most ordinary little mistakes, even my own past thoughts to myself about the merest trifles. They are always making me shiver.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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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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On board ship there are many sources of joy of which the land knows nothing. You may flirt and dance at sixty; and if you are awkward in the turn of a valse, you may put it down to the motion of the ship. You need wear no gloves, and may drink your soda-and-brandy without being ashamed of it.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he know how to speak the truth.
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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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There are some points on which no man can be contented to follow the advice of another - some subjects on which a man can consult his own conscience only.
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Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage.
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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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Men who cannot believe in the mystery of our Saviour's redemption can believe that spirits from the dead have visited them in a stranger's parlour, because they see a table shake and do not know how it is shaken; because they hear a rapping on a board, and cannot see the instrument that raps it; because they are touched in the dark, and do not know the hand that touches them.
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I think I owe my life to cork soles.
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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 property of manliness in a man is a great possession, but perhaps there is none that is less understood, which is more generally accorded where it does not exist, nor more frequently disallowed where it prevails.
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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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But mad people never die. That's a well-known fact. They've nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing. Could I have remembered, as some men do, what I read, I should have been able to call myself an educated man. But that power I have never possessed. Something is always left--something dim and inaccurate--but still something sufficient to preserve the taste for more. I am inclined to think that it is so with most readers.