Anthony Trollope Quotes
-
The idea of putting old Browborough into prison for conduct which habit had made second nature to a large proportion of the House was distressing to Members of Parliament generally.
-
A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
-
When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
-
Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
-
An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.
-
Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.
-
The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
-
Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
-
Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
-
Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
-
I never believe anything that a lawyer says when he has a wig on his head and a fee in his hand. I prepare myself beforehand to regard it all as mere words, supplied at so much the thousand. I know he'll say whatever he thinks most likely to forward his own views.
-
A pleasant letter I hold to be the pleasantest thing that this world has to give.
-
There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
-
A man can't do what he likes with his coverts.
-
What is there that money will not do?
-
The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion.
-
A Minister can always give a reason; and, if he be clever, he can generally when doing so punish the man who asks for it. The punishing of an influential enemy is an indiscretion; but an obscure questioner may often be crushed with good effect.
-
The grace and beauty of life will be clean gone when we all become useful men.
-
The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so.
-
Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife's hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
-
My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest at it, and will work with the most honest purpose, will work the best.
-
We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves. If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
-
It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.
-
The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.